Ryan Trahan created a YouTube channel at an extremely young age. He has always been an influencer and an innovator. What sets Ryan apart is his ability to create a space for his community and then make a deep connection with them for his authentic personal experiences into his entrepreneurial ventures. His product was The Neptune Bottle, which is a sleek and clean looking water bottle. His model also focused on sustainability and all together his product reflected his vision for blending functionality and style. Trahan is driven with his strong desire to create products that relate to his online content. He is doing what he loves and is just trying to make a profit on doing what he loves. His focus is on sustainability and eco-friendliness with his passion for cleaning up the environment. He wanted to use his platform to make a difference in the world and do what he loves for a living. Ryan’s ability to tell stories and form relationships with his massive community, makes his business model unique and interesting. No one, but him could sell his product because it was tied directly to his fans and internet presence.  He is able to use his following to expand his product and he always shuts out his brands and is a great short-term model to make a lot of profit. I think that Ryan demonstrates his ability of Creativity. His creativity in his skits and storytelling, really retain and convince his audience. Developing new branding strategies that integrate humor, his own stories, and challenges to captivate his following. Trahan’s new innovations come with his merging of content and product, mixing it with other creators in order to connect to their following and then sell to them. What inspires me is his ability to do what he loves and help a cause while still making a profit. With his vision of being ecofriendly is an issue, and people may start a nonprofit, but Ryan found a way to make a lot of profit from doing something he loves. This teaches me his true authenticity and he is always very upfront and tells you everything and this just makes him feel more like a normal person. It also helps build his following and is a great skill to use in order to make loyal buyers.

Ben is an intelligent teen as he spent most of his high school days building games to later add on the app store. He would create games that he found to be fun, and he would play them with his friends. Then one of his friends thought that it would be a good idea to publish the game so it could gain more of a following. From this “Ninia Jump” and “Impossible Rush” were born. With his tech background he began to build and develop a social media in the mid 2010’s (which seemed to be quite popular during this time). This social media was called, Flogg. Flogg, is a peer-to-peer app that utilizes the social aspects of social media and the profit from e-commerce to make an app for teenagers to buy and sell items. The main market strategy for this was to target young people, and this helped it stand out compared to the rest of the competition. With the target towards younger people the format could be more informal and focus on accessible marketplaces and ability to easily communicate with each other’s. His personal drive came not only from his love of creating things electronically, but also for his own personal need. This need was for a convent platform for teenagers to buy and sell safely and target gaps in markets. As younger people tend to heavily sway the trends and other factors. Ben’s entrepreneurial traits like resilience and innovation, are evident in how he continuously evolved his programming to find his niche and he eventually found it with his social media ecommerce program. His innovation continued to expand and eventually he created Monkey which is another social media. His journey is inspiring as he found a need for something and he created a solution, not just for monetary gain but to help address an issue he was facing. This is very admirable and his focus on the younger people is also good as that audience can easily be underrepresented. He also shows the importance of fearless experimentation, and impact of a highly volatile market. His works shows that by remaining in the loop of real needs and trends, young entrepreneurs can create groundbreaking solutions and thrive. Age doesn’t affect how innovative you are.

George Matus is one of the biggest innovators of commercial and military Drone use. He created his first drone at only the age of 12, and by 16 he founded Teal Drones, which is a multimillion-dollar company which was the first of its kind to develop a stable flying quadcopter which could fly 70+mph. George is driven by his love for drones and seeing a gap in technology. He has a vision for the future, and he believes he can fix it and be a part of the future. This can be seen by his decision to start building drones for the military. His business model capitalizes on different wants than what current technology can provide. He focuses on making fast and inexpensive drones. So, he has a small section he works in, but this section is one of the biggest and most important as the military is interested in this sector. This makes him a great entrepreneur, because he recognized that on a consumer level he was outmatched by other companies and would be stomped out. So, he shifted and found a new niche in the military and unmanned drones. This shows his ability to adapt to new circumstances and to flow with the market. He focuses on finding ways to mass produce his drones while maintaining the quality. Teal Drones are innovating by working on cheap IR drones in order to spot and identify targets from a remote location for the military. This would benefit the military by allowing them to avoid using large, bulky, and slow drones that could alert the enemy to their presence, thereby minimizing the risk of escalating tensions. Smaller, more agile drones can enhance stealth and improve reconnaissance capabilities, making operations more efficient and less detectable. Personally, his ability to adapt and find his niche is my favorite part of George Matus. Even though his invention is similar to others he modified it to fit the specific need of the military and now has a multimillion-dollar contract with them for only altering minute details. This is inspiring as my own idea has its own unique field and I can draw a lot of parallels from his struggles of big corporations to his niche search. I have learned a lot about the ability to adapt and to find your own spot in the market. This is the most valuable advice I’ve received surrounding entrepreneurship as it makes me be flexible and listen to many different ideas.