A 17-year-old earned $72,000 after investing his e-commerce profits into stocks. Here's why he bet on the tech industry.

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Samik Sidhu, 17, created an e-commerce business and invested in stocks. [CORRECT?]

Samik Sidhu

Phoebe Gates and her Phia cofounder raised $8 million at 23 years old, and it taught them 3 big lessons

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Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni
Phoebe Gates (right) and Sophia Kianni (left) met at Stanford University.

Zhamak Fullad/Phia

I dreamed of working at Goldman Sachs until I interned there. Now I'm living my new dream — running a Y Combinator AI startup.

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Raymond Zhao is the CEO and cofounder of Structured AI.

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I'm 18 and cofounded a multimillion-dollar company. Here's how I did it and my advice for other young founders.

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A young man leans against a brick wall outdoors, wearing a black T-shirt and a gold necklace.
Zach Yadegari cofounded Cal AI in high school.

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Brothers, 19 and 20, quit Stanford and graduated from Y Combinator with $4 million. Read their pitch deck.

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Shraman and Shreyas Kar, both wearing Stanford merch and posing next to a window.
Shraman and Shreyas Kar.

Golpo

I'm 16 and just raised $1 million for my AI project despite being average at school. Here's why it helps to be delusional.

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Toby Brown, 16, decided to leave school to move to San Francisco.

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A 17-year-old designed a cheaper, more efficient drone. The Department of Defense just awarded him $23,000 for it.

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teenage boy sitting at a desk covered in electronics and wiring in a white room
Cooper Taylor poses with his drone circuit board.

Normin Taylor

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