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Teen millionaire techpreneur Jaylen Bledsoe to Launch Young Entrepreneurs University
Seventeen-year-old Jaylen Bledsoe founded Bledsoe Technologies, an information technology consulting company, when he was just 12 years old, and under his stewardship, the company had grown and was valued at US$3.5 million by 2013 – by the of 15.
Bledsloe has plans to launch a new initiative called the Young Entrepreneur University.
A program for teenagers where Bledsoe would “teach students the concepts and fundamentals of building a business, based on the idea of innovating for people,” the University will roll out a digital curriculum of online courses designed to motivate teens to become business people.
“It’s more like crafting young people in our society to be entrepreneurs,” Bledsoe said. “Entrepreneurship is a hot topic right now for young college students trying to find their way, but that’s the youngest age in which efforts extend to. If I can use my story to motivate, inspire and push a young person who may be lost in life, then that’s my purpose.”
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