"Tech is no stranger to young founders. Steve Jobs was 21 when he cofounded Apple in 1976. Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when Facebook launched. Whitney Wolfe Herd was 25 when she unveiled Bumble. Many of today's startup founders are still young and scrappy. And in the age of AI, they're even more empowered to barrel ahead. Some are following the footsteps of tech titans before them and dropping out of college."
"Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, founder of AI coding startup Nozomio, told Business Insider that he dropped out of high school in Kazakhstan after getting accepted into the competitive startup accelerator program, Y Combinator (YC). At the age of 18, he raised $6.2 million for Nozomio. Rakhmetzhanov isn't the only teenager finding success in AI. There's also Toby Brown, a UK teen who raised $1 million for his AI project."
Young entrepreneurs from teenagers to people in their twenties are founding AI startups and securing multimillion-dollar funding. Some are leaving high school or college to join accelerators and pursue startups full time. Examples include an 18-year-old who raised $6.2 million for an AI coding company and a UK teen who raised $1 million for an AI project, alongside teenage cofounders of other AI apps. The median age at a major accelerator fell from 30 in 2022 to 24, indicating a younger cohort. College students are also launching funded companies and using pitch decks to attract investors.
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