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At 22, I’ve built two multimillion-dollar companies, raised $1.5 million while taking finals and convinced Miami University to pay me $200,000 to stay enrolled. While my classmates were buried in textbooks and partying, I was burning through sleepless nights and betting on ideas that seemed insane to everyone around me … until they started to work.
Before those bets turned into a repeatable strategy, it was easy to write me off as just another kid playing entrepreneur. Early twenty-somethings are constantly told to play it safe: Graduate, get the first decent job you can find, stash away 10% of your paycheck,