John Collison, cofounder of Stripe, was raised near Limerick Ireland. Stripe is a company that allows businesses to accept payment by means of the internet. He had the idea for Stripe with his brother Patrick while they were both in college still. They both went to MIT in Cambridge. In September of 2019, the company raised $250 million funding round with a $35 billion valuation. Their first ever payment was processed while both of them were on vacation in South America.

In the beginning of their process, hiring was taking very long to happen and even took a year to get four people. Obtaining their user’s money was difficult for them. So they didn’t accept payments or spending a lot on resources. The brothers thought what they really needed was a solid economic infrastructure. As a small company, it is hard to hire a lot of people at once, or even a normal amount considering visas can get in the way of things. John is on a visa, while his brother Patrick is on a green card. They were mainy looking for a broad market to attack. They launched in Canada, and are were still looking for more countries in 2012.

Sources:

Stripe’s 22-Year-Old Irish-Born Founder Is Just Getting Started | Inc.com

John Collison (forbes.com)

Ilse Valfre is a successful fashion designer and professional illustrator who was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She described how growing up throughout her years in Tijuana really inspired her, “Growing up looking at street art inspired me to be creative myself.” What then came out of this inspiration was the founding of Valfre – an LA-based art, accessories brand and apparel which she founded in late 2013. The Valfre brand rapidly became known, as it has been located in over 250 stores all over the world. These included Nordstrom’s and Urban Outfitters and was overall a global inspiration for creative minds.

The goal of Valfre is to be creative in bringing about her unique products. What she creates is a  reflection of the psychedelic world that she has produced for her customers. Her work specifically explores the tension between vulnerability and being confident. Through this, she transports her audience and their hearts into everything she creates.

Source:

Ilse Valfre – Wide Open Walls

Gerard Adams, a millennial entrepreneur, is the co-founder of the online news source of Elite Daily. This is the premier online news space for millennials. It is the leading source for all the breaking news on the platform and the perfect entertainment for future leaders of our up coming generations. This entertainment keeps topics towards politics, social justice, the college life, humor money, etc. By the year 2008, the online investor relations Firm Wall Street Grand that he launched had reached the price of $10 million. He was accepted into Caldwell University however, he chose a different path launching an online ratings forum for traders and investors. Soon after, he was put into the position of becoming the director of investor relations at mPhase. He soon however, fell into a huge failure of the battery of mPhase not working during a live demonstration.

The sale had ultimately helped to be an inspiration for the launching of Elite Daily, and and allowed Adams to pay off the mortgage of his parents. Tony Robbins was the one who helped Adams and got him to realize what it was that he wanted to do. He said to Adams, “Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.” This was when Adams decided to launch Fownders which is a non-profit that aims to help young students in Newark involved with entrepreneurship.

He also founded Leaders Create Leaders, a consultancy that shows you how to create growth, legacy, impact, and freedom. This is shown through a client-service business. Him and his team have provided support for early-stage entrepreneurs.

Overall, his ultimate goal was becoming an investor, trusted advisor, and philanthropist. His advice to people aspiring to become leaders was, “When you put good energy into the world, and you push forward day in and day out, I guarantee you that opportunities will manifest.”

Works cited:

How the Co-Founder of Elite Daily Overcame the Biggest Failure of His Life | Inc.com

Gerard Adams – Founder – Leaders Create Leaders Enterprise | LinkedIn

Adelle Archer is an entrepreneur who is the CEO and co-founder of Eterneva. Eterneva is a company that specializes in honoring the lives of lost people or pets by turning their ashes that were cremated into diamonds. At the young age of 23, she graduated valedictorian in her class and was a leader in tech for four years that she spent as a Product Marketing leader. In the year 2019, she was named Consumer Startup of the Year, which was initiated by Stevie Awards. She was also featured on Shark Tank and made a deal with Mark Cuban. She received her MBA for being an entrepreneur at the Action School of Business. When she graduated, she launched huge products in order to market with companies such as Amazon, Square, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, and Pinterest. She soon escalated quickly in her success and became a very influential person in the industry.

Amber Venz is an entrepreneur who is president of rewardStyle as well as the Co-Founder. This platform is for top-tear fashion. Before she founded rewardStyle in the year 2011, She had worked through all of the fashion industry. In 2005, she launched her jewelry line as a college freshman. Then later, she worked as a freelance stylist in LA. She then launched her style blog VENZEDITS.com in 2010 at just the age of 22, which she still runs to this day. With the help of her husband, Baxter Box, they both created LIKEtoKNOW.it App, where you use screenshots of outfits to find for yourself online.

In the year 2011, rewardStyle was launched. For five years, they worked on building this business. With what started as a small project, this turned into a multi-national business with 250 team members all across seven offices throughout the world: London, Berlin, Dallas, New York, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Los Angeles.

They both have been immensely proud of their team and the company. There have been even many digital style influencers able to use rewardStyle as their business solution in order to earn their healthy way of living by doing what they love, which is to create beautiful content. Amber is a full time mom and spends a lot of time with her husbund while focusing on the Christian faith, and investing time into their family and the life that they l0ve.

Abhas Suman is a young entrepreneur who independently started producing music at the age of 17. At this young age, he not only received his copyright certificate ID, but also his voter ID card. He released his first song in the year 2019 and is being mentored by a lot of artists such as “MAVJAK” and “Mike Waters”. He also released two songs for Netherland based company RadioWave. His hometown is Koderma in Jharkhand, which is relatively small.

His idea started out when he first began using Digital Audio Workstation based Softwares. He wanted to know how exactly producers make music without the physical instrument. As 4 years past, he realized people needed to start hearing what he had been producing. He then started to send his work to companies and was soon after selected by one. He says that a good artists consists 30% skills in his field and 70% skills of how exactly to show it to the world.

One example of a successful young entrepreneur is Abraham Lieberman. The things that make him unique from other entrepreneurs is that he started working in the workforce at the young age of 18. At this age, he started working for the Israeli military which is in the Southern District. He is mainly known for being the founder and CEO of Clicks Talent. He also began leading a career as a freelance social media consultant. He said that his job is to recruit and manage creators who create daily content for the US division of the platform of their app in order to ensure their users have interesting people to interact with. What makes Lieberman’s idea great is his originality. His influence at the marketing agency specializes him in new platforms for his career. Abraham Lieberman is specifically inspiring to me due to his originally and ability to start a business and be successful at such a young age.