When you think of an entrepreneur it is typical to think of words like self motivated, determined, wealthy, and perseverance. I mention these words because it is important to think about what makes a good entrepreneur. John Collison is a man who possesses all of these characterisits. John Collison is a 30 year old Irish – born man who dropped out of college to start his company, Stripe, in 2010. Stripe is a software company that focuses on the mobile payment process for companies such as Lyft, Visa, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. John Collison and his brother created this software and took it to big venture capital investors, such as Elon Musk, for funding to really help take their company and idea to the next level. Just 6 years after their company was founded the Collison brothers became the youngest self made billionaires. In 2018, Stripe was valued at over $19 billion. These brothers created this company on their own and they built it into what it is today. They were both men who were deteremined and self motivated to help make things easier for the user. As of recently, Stripe has grown so much from the two brothers to now more than 1,500 employees.

I am by no means trying to be controversial, but I feel as though Kylie Jenner should be discussed if we are talking about young entrepreneurs. Kylie comes from a very famous family and she has a very large following. But Kylie is also the owner, founder, and CEO of Kylie Cosmetics, an American Cosmetics. She was only 21 years old when she became a billionaire. That is literally just from her cosmetic company. This money was not from her previous fame or her family’s money. She beat Mark Zuckerberg by two years and that is unheard of.

I believe to be successful you have to use whatever you can. She was just a 21 year old girl who loved doing her make up because it made her feel pretty and she wanted to make other people feel pretty. She used her platform to market it and it took off. She was one of the first of her famous family to break away and to make her own business. Say what you want about her and her family but their marketing is unmatched. Kylie is the youngest child of a family of famous people and she just said I like make up so I am gunna sell make up. She built this brand of products that were different and new and she ran with it and it worked. She wasn’t reinventing the wheel, but she was very entrepreneurial in thinking.

Eli Zied, as a 15 year old boy, created an organization that’s purpose was to create and encourage good habits 365 days a year. Habits 365 is a clothing brand that has grown in to one of the most up and coming brands in the country. He has connected with 3,000 representatives, 2,000 customers, and 60 celebrities. Eli’s intentions is to grow a streetwear powerhouse. He is now still only 18 years old and he has created an empire of positivity.

I am inspired by the drive and passion that this young man has. Eli is working hard to spread good habits and positive attitudes. Eli also works as a social media consultant and consults with other up and coming clothing brands. He is inspiring to all young people to follow your dreams and to make a difference. You don’t have to come up with a whole new product or idea, you just need to have a passion and a message. Eli’s message is “your habits determine your success”. From that idea is where all of this started for him.

Babur Jahid is an Afghanistan national. He lived there for 16 years and witnessed the transition into the democratic government and the fall of the Taliban. After this, he was forced into being a refugee in Pakistan for almost 8 years. He later returned to Afghanistan to attend the most prestigious school, the International School of Kabul. He went to that school and then later moved to the United States for schooling because of his excellent performance in school. He now resides in Ottawa, Canada continuing is education still . It was through all of these experiences and all that he saw that but the passion for public health on his heart.

Jahid’s organization, YouSeeClear, is meant to help bring eye care, glasses, and other eye related things to the people in Afghanistan. Studies show that 400,000 people are blind, 1.5 million people are visually impaired, and 25,000 people lose vision in at least one eye every year. Though this effects both men and women it is more strongly shown in women. These stats are devastating to hear. They suffer with this conditions and don’t even know there is a way to change it or make it better. So, this organization will do vison testing and bring glasses to the people in homeland.

Jahid has been through a lot in his short 21 years on this earth and all he wants to do is being public health to his homeland along with other war torn countries. He wants to be the voice that the people done have. So, YouSeeClear is just a small step in the right direction to start changing the things that need to be changed.

Babur Jahid’s new mission is to become the Afghanistan’s Minster of Public Health. I have no doubt that he will one day accomplish this.

Hillary Yip is a 15 year old girl who is the youngest CEO in the world. She created an educational app for young kids called, MinorMynas. This app is meant to facilitate language learning opportunities for kids. It is an interactive app for kids to live chat and engage in other games to learn other languages from people who actually speak it. Hillary is from Hong Kong and knows multiple languages herself and the idea for MinorMynas was just an extension of her creativity that ended up working.

Hillary Yip, who is now 15, was around 12 years old when she created this app and became a CEO of a big company. She did this by trusting herself and her ideas and being encouraged by those around her. Though she is young, she conducts herself with poise and respect. That is how she gains respect from those around her.

The app itself stands on these  pillars; fun, self-directed learning, convenience, and effective. MinorMynas, connect to inspire, uses these objectives to create the experience they want. It is fun and that makes it effective because when kids enjoy what they are doing it makes them want to keep doing it and they will be learning more because they love it.  It being self-directed is great because now they can feel like adults knowing that they can do something on their own. And the fact that it is something kids can do anytime, anywhere is great.

Hillary Yip is a great example of what your creativity can do if you just trust yourself.