Meet Maddie Rae. She like many other pre-teens in 2017 fell in love with the slime trend. She was obsessed with slime, with all the ways slime could be transformed into different textures, colors, and styles. Every time she went out with her dad she would beg him to get her more slime making supplies. Unfortunately, because of the craze there was a shortage of glue. She would scavenge through stores and ask all the employees where to find glue, but she would return empty-handed. Peeved by this she set out to make her own glue. She crafted a glue that was specifically for slime making. It took months before Maddie crafted a recipe that has all the qualities she wanted for her smile. Later in 2017 she released a slime making kit which featured her glue on Amazon. Since the launch of this product Maddie has grown a fan-base which is always clamoring for more products.

In November of 2017 she and her team broke the Guinness World Record for the largest slime. It took over 100 people to make a pool slime which weighed almost 13,820 pounds. Now, she has created a yearly slime convention called Maddie Rae’s Slime Bash. This event was an incredible success which created international buzz. Maddie has now taken this event on the road and has planned many similar events for more people to engage in. Maddie now owns her own shop. Her shop now sells gallons of her glue. Not only does she sell her glue but many add-ins. She have made it a one-stop-shop for any slime enthusiast. A simple look at her store goes to show the extent of Maddie’s love for slime.

Slime Making 

Moziah Bridges was nine years old when he started making bowties. His granny fueled his start and taught him how to create his elegant bows. And now as an eighteen-year-old he has traveled the word, encouraging children to start their own businesses. He has been hosted on many shows and has partnered with large businesses. Some of the shows he has been on includes Shark Tank, Steve Harvey Show, and Good Morning America. One of his larger partners was the NBA in 2015. He got to partner with the whole Basketball Association in 2017 and made bowties for all thirty teams. It was also in this year that Bridges got to present the then president Obama with his own tie. Bridges’s current company Mo’s Bows only has five employees. Most of these few employees are his family members. His mother is now the one to carefully select and tweak what fabric is used in their ties. His company now sells regular ties, as well as hats, to fill out his  portfolio. He also sells his first book which is an instruction book on how to create your own businesses. Because of Bridges running his own company, he is able to create and run unique opportunities. He has gone and raised thousands of dollars to help children get into summer camps. He wants to help kids tap into their passions when they are young. Bridges says his goal is to help men look fashionable and fun. He wants, to grow, each day to be better then the last. His bows are elegant and bright. He now gets to run that dream through his shop and his thousands of customers.

Bridges Interview 

Mo’s Bows

Sam Altman was born in Chicago and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He majored in Comp Sci at Stanford University. According to him he learned more from playing poker then he did from his professors. He spent his time practicing pattern searching and making decisions with limited knowledge. In 2005 he made his first app, which was an app by which friends could keep track of their friends. This first app brought Altman attention from higher up companies. It was in 2011 that Altman started as a part-time partner in the Y Combinator. Through this partnership the Y Combinator built up its repetition and business strategy. After his first year partnering he started another venture with his brother, Hydrazine Capital.

In 2015 OpenAI was launched as a social project. Altman was one of the CEOs involved with the creation and launch of OpenAI. Altman sourced a great deal of funding for this project, and was helped by his partner CEO Elon Musk, and entrepreneur Peter Thiel. Altman worked into a partnership, implementing OpenAI into Microsoft’s cloud serviced. Microsoft not owns 49% or OpenAI’s services and products. Altman, through OpenAI, launched ChatGPT in 2022.

By creating platforms for information searching, Altman opened up a new world of knowledge. Due to political pressures the board of OpenAI’s directors fired Altman for not being straightforward and honest in in his communications with them. This dismissal of Altman opened up questions in the workplace. The following days many insisted that they be fired along with Altman. Later Altman was hired by Microsoft to lead a team of researchers, delving into the mystery of AI. Altman has now returned to OpenAI and has gone through investigation to ensure the humanity and ethicists of his intent with AI information sharing.

About Sam Altman

In 2012, 3 year old Ryan was taken to his local recycling center by his dad. This trip seemed to inspire the young entrepreneur, as he approached his family in following days commenting on the amount of waste in the streets. In the following years, Ryan started collecting plastic bottles and cans from his neighbors and from surrounding neighborhoods to sell to the recycling plant in Orange County, CA. It was in 2017 when Ryan and his story went viral. He was featured on multiple high profile broadcasting shows and has partnered with Old Navy and was featured by H&M. Ryan now runs the his fully functioning company, Ryan’s Recycling. The company goes out and collects plastic and  glass bottles, and aluminum cans. His company takes the trash to the closest recycling center to weigh and sort their collection. Since 2016, Ryan’s Recycling has received many awards and recognitions, along with making it onto many notable lists which bring to light the immensity and impressiveness of his business. Already in 2024 Ryan has been recognized in  the Global Young Entrepreneur Society 25 Under 25 List, and by the SAR Certificate of Recognition. Ryan has been reaching out to schools in to engage students in environmental protection and preservation. In the pursuit of cleaning his home town, Ryan has inspired many to not only better care for our homes, but to try what we might think could never succeed. Now he has recycled almost two million bits of debris. He is the embodiment of ‘no excuses’, no matter your age, no matter your position in life.  He encourages everyone, inspiring and reminding people that they have the ability and responsibility to care for the environment.

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Ryan’s Recycling