Tomorrow's leaders are already making moves today.
With greater access to technology than ever before, coupled with the ongoing urgency to address global challenges, today's next-gen leaders are ready to take action. They have the tools to explore, collaborate, and showcase their work on the big stage, and leaders are paying attention.
Business Insider's "Young Geniuses" explores the big ambitions behind the next generation's brightest.
They're putting passion into progress, turning curiosity into action, and asking big questions that lead to groundbreaking solutions.
From teenage inventors and one-of-a-kind discoveries to startup founders and award-winning ventures, each story offers a look into the future through the eyes of those building it.
This 19-year-old sold his $30 million AI calorie-tracking startup. Now he's tackling doomscrolling.
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A college student is funding his tuition by raising bees and selling honey: 'This is the ultimate side business'
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The $16 billion startup factory betting on 20-somethings with no ideas yet
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The newest prediction markets guru is a middle schooler in braces
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A 19-year-old opened an art studio, panicked 2 weeks in, and then turned it into a $320,000 viral hit. Here's how.
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I moved across the world to get into the Ivy League. Then I quit Brown after a year to launch a VC firm at 21.
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Meet the 21-year-old media exec who wants TikTok shows to be taken seriously
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My AI startup pays people to film themselves taking out the trash. It's now valued at $150 million.
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This 16-year-old refused a $300,000 offer to drop out of high school and now runs his own AI company
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He skipped college to intern with an ex-Sequoia director. Three years later, he's a cofounder.
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I was Facebook's youngest engineer at 17. I left Meta at a moment when AI's lead can change every few months.
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Young founders share 12 pitch decks that raised millions in the AI boom
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I founded an AI startup while still in high school. I'm now 22 and have raised over $2M — I have no regrets about skipping college.
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An 18-year-old brings in $300,000 a month selling 3D printed 'reload can holders.' Here's how he comes up with unique product ideas.
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Bollywood dance teammates raised $5.3 million for their Y Combinator AI startup. Read their pitch deck.
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How a dating app got a spot on 'Shark Tank' — and scored a $200K investment from Alexis Ohanian and Kendra Scott
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I raised $500,000 at 21 by selling a share of my future earnings. It's how I solved having great ideas but no capital.
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This 24-year-old founded a sneaker wholesale company that made $40 million in sales revenue last year — here's how he did it
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This 17-year-old wrote the ultimate ELI5 for coding
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Silicon Valley is raising billions to develop wearable AI products. These 15-year-olds built theirs for under $100.
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Why Hollywood is paying this 17-year-old up to $20,000 to boost film trailers with TikTok edits
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I'm 18 and founded an AI startup. I have to wake up at 3 a.m. to work on it before school, but it's worth every sleepless night.
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A 13-year-old won $25,000 for his AI fall-detecting device. He used the money to develop a free app.
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A teenage entrepreneur who does 6-figures in sales explains how anyone can start an e-commerce business with a 3D printer and a couple of hundred dollars
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Meet the young AI startup founders raising millions in the race to build the next big thing
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How a 24-year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout hired some of Meta's brightest minds to join her AI math startup
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I'm 22 and worth $25 million. I don't regret sacrificing sleep, friendships, and college parties to get here.
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A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight, he says.
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Meet the 21-year-old former MrBeast staffer building an AI startup to help creators make viral videos
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Two 19-year-old MIT dropouts joined Y Combinator and raised $2.7 million to arm police with AI. Read the pitch deck.
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I'm a female solo founder of an AI startup. It can be lonely, and I have to work hard to be taken seriously, but it's given me mental resilience.
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These 20-year-olds have grown their AI note-taking app for students by 5 million users in 6 months
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I quit college at 21 to run my AI company. Sacrifices like working up to 80-hour weeks were worth it.
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The YouTuber behind the Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest is launching a marketing startup. Here are the details.
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Two Gen Z founders who raised $1.25 million for their AI startup share their pro tips for landing funding
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Two teen founders dropped out of school and raised $3 million out of Y Combinator. Read their pitch deck.
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A 17-year-old earned $72,000 after investing his e-commerce profits into stocks. Here's why he bet on the tech industry.
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I'm 19 and taking a gap year from Harvard to build my AI startup in San Francisco
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Phoebe Gates and her Phia cofounder raised $8 million at 23 years old, and it taught them 3 big lessons
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I dreamed of working at Goldman Sachs until I interned there. Now I'm living my new dream — running a Y Combinator AI startup.
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I sold my first app at 16 and cofounded a company that earns about $30 million a year. One of my biggest challenges now is finding people I can relate to in college.
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Brothers, 19 and 20, quit Stanford and graduated from Y Combinator with $4 million. Read their pitch deck.
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I'm 16 and just raised $1 million for my AI project despite being average at school. Here's why it helps to be delusional.
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I cofounded an app with a teenager, and we make over $1 million in profit a month. You never know who might change your life.
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I'm a high school dropout who raised $6 million out of Y Combinator. Being a teen founder means you can take more risks.
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I've interned at IBM since high school. It's taught me 3 key lessons about building a career in tech.
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Read the pitch deck a 25-year-old startup founder used to raise $14 million for her friendship app
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Silicon Valley's 'youthquake': In the age of AI, founders aren't waiting to grow up
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He joined SpaceX at 14. At 16, teen prodigy Kairan Quazi is jumping to quant trading giant Citadel Securities.
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A 17-year-old designed a cheaper, more efficient drone. The Department of Defense just awarded him $23,000 for it.
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A 19-year-old won $100,000 for inventing a cheaper, faster way to make antiviral drugs out of corn husks
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Meet the Silicon Valley college dropouts throwing their own graduation
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An award-winning invention by 3 teens could help get plastic out of shipping boxes. They want to pitch to Amazon and Home Depot.
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3 teens invented a salt-powered refrigerator that doesn't need electricity. They're building 200 of them for hospitals to use.
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A teen won $12,500 for building a playground out of recycled tires. She plans to build 3 more parks across Nigeria.
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A new AI startup founded by Yale students wants to compete with LinkedIn. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $3M.
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An 18-year-old won $250,000 for discovering over a million objects in space. Some could help unravel one of the universe's biggest mysteries.
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Teens won $50,000 for inventing a flood forecasting technology they hope can help millions of people at risk worldwide
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A 10-year-old girl found 220-million-year-old dinosaur footprints on the beach
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This high schooler won $10,000 because he saw a mysterious outbreak killing sea turtles in his Hawaii hometown and decided to do something about it
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2 teens won $50,000 for inventing a device that can filter toxic microplastics from water
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A 16-year-old took home $75,000 for her award-winning discovery that could help revolutionize biomedical implants
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A 13-year-old girl helped unearth an ancient Roman town. She's finally getting credit for it over 90 years later.
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A 17-year-old took home $250,000 for his award-winning discovery in computer 'brains' that could make AI smarter and safer
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A 13-year-old built a 'death ray' using a 2,000-year-old concept from Greek inventor Archimedes
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A high schooler's award-winning algorithm could help Elon Musk's company Neuralink and pave the way for neural implants that never need replacing
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A middle schooler just won $25,000 for inventing a fire-detection device that works faster than the average smoke detector
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A 14-year-old won $25,000 for his simple solution to treat skin cancer. Just use soap.
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A 21-year-old won $40,000 for using AI to read the first word on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius
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