Jourdan Urbach is a prodigy Julliard violinist turned social entrepreneur and philanthropist. At the age of 7 he was the youngest person to ever play Carnegie Hall. Then in 1998 his started his first non-profit, Children Helping Children in order to leverage his early music success into funds for children stricken with neurological illnesses. This non-profit would raise over $5 million while he was still in high school. Later he would start several more non/for profit ventures like Collegephilanthropy.org and DevHound. For his philanthropic social enterprises Jourdan would receive our nations highest honor for public service the National Jefferson Award. Jourdan’s most recent venture Ocho is a social video platform that is “re-imagining how we see and share our world. Ocho is a media device that is even beginning to rival social media giants like Vine and Instagram.
Evident in Jourdan Urbach’s success is a burning passion to help those around him and do so with excellence. Elegance in design, brilliance on the violin and empathy with his consumers are all words that accurately describe everything that he does. When Jourdan starts a company he is not done with it until it is completely self-sufficient, saying, “You really haven’t built an organization until it can live without you.” Just by visiting Jourdan’s website you can see a visual example of his tenacity and elegance when comes to design and his businesses. He truly is a Millennial to look up to.