Kyle Vogt was a student at MIT, during his Junior year he left to go join the start-up team that would form Justin.tv and Twitch. Through that process he was the company’s main programmer, he was called a “creative genius” for his work in the company. After Twitch was sold to Amazon, Vogt left to form his own company, Cruise Automation, which works on autonomous cars. This was a passion of his ever since he was a younger. Cruise was bought by GM in 2016, for 1 billion dollars. Vogt along with his co-founder Dan Kan are the youngest senior directors at GM.
Cruise Cars,
https://getcruise.com/
Info on Kyle Vogt,
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylevogt
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/kyle-vogt#section-overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Vogt#Cruise_Automation
Go millennials! I’m so challenged by entrepreneurs who branch out and challenge the status quo by not doing the normal college thing. I love that.
It’s inspiring to see a college student become so successful with a startup idea. Kyle had so much faith in Twitch that he even left school to pursue this idea. This goes to show how one good idea can drastically change life as you know it.
For every failed college startup company, there’s another that ends up becoming wildly successful. Kyle’s story is incredibly inspiring, since it shows us just how far a simple idea can take you if you’re willing to put the effort in.