Philip Hartman, a 15 year old entrepreneur from Colorado has loved building things since he was 8 years old experimenting with slingshots and arrows. He won the 2008 Young Inventor of the Year award with a new system for fusing optical fibers that is cheap, more efficient, and more dependable. He also created the Steam Viper which is a device that emits steam onto a windshield and is capable of defrosting a frost-covered windshield in about 15 seconds. With all his success you’d think Philip spent all his time studying and experimenting but he says that he has many different sections of his life, inventing is just one of them. He plays tennis and banjo, in those groups his friends don’t even know of his entrepreneurial success. Inventing to him is a passion and its something he’s tested and failed at many times. A quote from one of his interviews says that “If you’re just doing it for the money, then it doesn’t really work. You won’t end up being successful… Do what you love.” This demonstrates how being an entrepreneur is a lifestyle more than a career.