13 - Stacey Ferreira on Dropping Out and Founding Forge
The Daily Job Hunt
English - April 15, 2019 12:00 - 24 minutes - 20.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsCareers Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week on Career Crashers, Stacey Ferreira joins the show to talk about her experience of launching a company at 18 that raised $1.2M in funding and learning from real-world experience over the classroom.
Learn more about Forge at: http://www.joinforge.com/
Learn more about Stacey at: https://twitter.com/staceyferreira
In this episode:
- How Stacey started a business and raised 1.2M in venture capital right after high school
- How being young can be an advantage when you are starting your career
- Why and how Stacey learned to code
- How video games can lead to learning and opportunities
- Challenges and lessons learned building a company as an 18-year-old
- How people overlook the positives that individuals get from starting companies, even if the company isn't financially successful
- Making the decision to leave college for the Theil Fellowship
- The idea that led Stacey to create Forge
- Stacey's advice for young people just starting their careers
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