Kevin Gibbon along with co-founders Jack Smith and Joshua Scott created a company that has made shipping items to any destination throughout the world frictionless. Kevin is now CEO this company. Its name is Shyp. It was designed to take all the stress out of shipping any packages. Shyp is a San Francisco-based company that utilizes a mobile app to provide a courier service that replaces the need for consumers to visit the post office. The company picks up, packages, and ships items through USPS and other major carriers. He first realized the need for a change in the shipping business at a young age. As a young man, Kevin was an avid eBay user. He sold items on the site all the time, and as such a powerseller, he realized how difficult it was to ship and return items. Therefore the industry needed to change. Before he started to create Shyp, he had already created Shoparound, a shopping app on iPhone that reached all the way into the top 100 rankings.  Even before that Kevin led a Boeing engineer team. With this team, he engineered the organization’s first iPad application that could be used in the cockpit. Returning to Shyp, it is currently operational in New York, San Francisco, and Miami and will soon be launching in Los Angeles. Through two rounds of funding, since 2013, Shyp has raised $12.1.

I view this as highly impressive because as a young man he realized the need of change in an industry that nobody else would even try bothering to change. The other more impressive thing is that after he came to this realization, he went and created two other successful apps before finally coming back to Shyp.

Are you kidding? A five year old entrepreneur, Sebastian Martinez,  is making a lot more money than I have made in my whole life so far. At the age of five, Sebastian was all about crazy designs on socks. Knowing this, his mom suggested to him that he should start creating his own socks. At that age, one has nothing to lose, so he created he own company called “Are You Kidding”. This company is comprised of a lot of crazy looking socks that Sebastian created all by himself. In 2014, Are You Kidding made $15,000 in profit and through 2015, Sebastian is projecting his profits to double and possibly triple from last year’s profits.

As such a young kid, you would not think him to be smart with all the money he is making, but in reality, he is setting a great example for the rest of us by partnering with money non-profit organizations or donating a lot of its profits to respectable causes. In 2014, Are You Kidding combined with both the American Cancer Association and Live Like Bella Foundation to raise money for cancer. Through these efforts, Are You Kidding raised over$3000 for cancer research. Also, this past April they partnered with The Hue Studio and gave 25% of its sales to Discovery Arts, which is a charitable organization which helps terminally ill children by bringing art programs to them so they have something fun and engaging to do.

This kid is such an inspiration to me because anyone making that kind of money tends to be greedy and keep it all for themselves, but Sebastian shows wisdom in his youth and gives a lot of it away to kids who are much more in need of it than he is.

Have you ever wanted to write all over a wall without any of the consequences such as the writing permanently being stuck there. With this brilliant new invention created by Morgan Newman, Jeff Avallon, and John Goscha, you can do what I just described on essentially any smooth surface. These three young entrepreneurs have engineered a paint that sticks onto any smooth surface and will allow you to use that surface as a dry erase board.

These three came up with the idea while brainstorming together for a school project. I guess they must have hundreds of ideas floating in their heads because they ran out of room to write their ideas down and consequentially came up with the idea of IdeaPaint. In the early stages of development, they were working with two separate labs to manufacture this paint. Both labs said that the paint would be impossible, but in 2008, after many years of research and development, they finally created the sought after paint. And in the same year, released their first product line.

After creation, their business started off slow, but all it took was one trip to Australia to launch the project on a global scale. With the single trip to Australia, they landed three solid partners. Now the company has more than 20,000 installations in homes, schools, and offices around the world. This includes uses by companies such as MTV and even the CIA. You can buy it and apply it yourself. A single can has enough paint to cover a 50 square foot space and costs a meager $225. Their story is inspirational because none of this would have happened if they had listened to the scientists and lab technicians that had told them it was impossible. Instead, they pushed on and have now created a product and idea that is becoming very successful.

Jake Botzenhart

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