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19-year old Shreya is a talented software engineer building bridges between young people in tech and policy to accelerate the growth of Australia’s tech ecosystem. 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝗲𝘆𝗮'𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 • Shreya is a Software Engineer intern at Mutinex ($130m valuation), a Marketing Mix Modeling startup • As well as interning, she's exploring creating effective tech policy by advising for the Parliament of NSW as a Technology and Policy Advisor • While coding is her core, she’s also exploring side projects, with a keen interest on Quantum Computing and Robotics 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝗲𝘆𝗮'𝘀 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀 • In the future, Shreya hopes to build at the intersection of international relations and technology but is also passionate about exploring the future of medtech and edtech Welcome to the community Shreya! 💪

Meet Michael Del Casino, a genius 26-year-old AI engineer at Anduril with a fascinating journey across tech, software and high-frequency trading. 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹’𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: • While at college, Michael dropped out of a full-tuition math scholarship to lead software dev at a high-frequency trading firm in Puerto Rico, executing $1B/year in trades • After starting at Anduril, he and a friend founded and architected the IRAD project that developed into the Bolt-M platform. • Bolt-M is an AI-powered loitering munition, the most advanced in its class, and was recently awarded a $250M program of record by the United States Marine Corps. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁? Michael plans to start a company that brings real-time AI applications to the physical world, drawing on from his past innovations. At the core, Michael is curious and reflects on often being the “odd man out” in the short-run, but ending up flying farther above any herd-mentality in the long-term. Check Mike’s recommendations for content that’s influenced him the most.

Meet the community member who founded a CPG business at 18 years old and grew to nearly 9-figures: Matt Wan 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁’𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗼 𝗙𝗮𝗿 • At 18, Matt founded Momentous, now the official supplements partner of CrossFit and collaborator with the US Department of Defense       𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘀 delivers highest quality, research-backed dietary supplements designed to elevate everyday performance and support a sustainable, active lifestyle.        Earned a spot on the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗜𝗻𝗰. 𝟱𝟬𝟬𝟬 for 300% revenue growth and recognized as one of 𝗨𝘁𝗮𝗵’𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻. (https://lnkd.in/gdyEfZfR)     • For 5.5 years, Matt led Momentous as CEO after leaving college in his freshman year, overseeing its growth before selling a controlling stake to private equity last year. • In the last 2.5 years, Matt worked at JAZZ Venture Partners from a Senior Associate role to a Principal. 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁’𝘀 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 • With JAZZ’s backing, Matt recently launched 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘁 (http://becurrent.co/), a consumer business creating superior alternatives to nicotine and tobacco products. • Matt continues to serve as a Principal at JAZZ. 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁’𝘀 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀 • Matt’s goal for Sett is to get 1B off of tobacco and vape products. • In the long-term, Matt hopes to move into an Exec Chair role with Sett and find/build a forever-role in investing. With strengths in fundraising, team-building, and identifying high-potential startup opportunities, Matt is sure to see continued success in business and venture. We're so excited to see where his journey goes.

Our end of year intake closes at the end of this weekend. A core axiom of ours is that you are the average of those around you. So our community is an environment that strives to make the exceptional normal. Our members range from under 30 year old founders like Max Marchione (Founder @Superpower 4m pre-seed from Balaji, Cyan Bannister, Zuckerberg), Simon Kubica (3m from Y Combinator), Alex Brogan (creator, 600k+ audience). And it only scratches the surface of what people are building (see screenshot). Join the community that makes success far easier and more likely. Apply now. 👉 https://lnkd.in/g_nvctav

There are 3 days till our applications close. We have over 400 applications. We believe in being the single best place to be if you are a young founder. We want to make success far easier and more likely. If that's you and you want a powerful unlock apply here: https://lnkd.in/g_nvctav

As an ambitious young founder, it can be difficult to know what to do, find mentors, and connect with like-minded others. Our mission is to change that 🚀: We want success to be far easier and more likely. We want to create the single best product to unlock young founders and entrepreneurs. We want to build the product we wish we had. To do so, we bring together the most talented young people in the world and surround them with top mentors, learnings, investment, and much more. Our intake is open, apply here 👉🏼 https://lnkd.in/g_nvctav

Intake is open! 🚀 Apply below. We believe that you’re the average of those around you. So we’re creating an environment that makes the exceptional normal. A place where the the curious and ambitious help each other make a dent in the universe. Our members range from Max Marchione (Founder @Superpower 4m pre-seed from Balaji, Cyan Bannister, Zuckerberg), Simon Kubica (3m from Y Combinator), Richard Eve (Strategy & Product @Eucalyptus). Apply here 👉 https://lnkd.in/g_nvctav

Celebrating another one of our young founders! At 18 here is Ishan Mahajan’s story 📖 “If there was one word I would use to describe myself it would be a wanderer”🧙🏼♂️ ”I would rather be viewed for my legacy: the things I did, rather than the money I made” Ishan was born to hard-working immigrant parents. Growing up he witnessed them translate their creative spirit and drive into running their own business which changed both their own lives and left a positive impact on the world. He has carried over this ambition, creativity and multidisciplinary thinking into his own life. Ishan’s experience lies at the crossover of both startups and VC. He is the co-founder AstraCell (https://lnkd.in/gWpHKk8H) which re-engineers fuel cells in order to decrease platinum. Astrafuelcell received international news recognition, grant funding, and non-provisional and provisional patents. Simultaneously, he founded an environmental nonprofit that planted nearly 100,000 trees worldwide in indigenous communities (Grey To Green International) All the while, Ishan is also studying chemistry and economics before he completes his medicine degree. Ishan has worked in the VC space. Ishan’s two main interests are climate tech and healthcare:  1️⃣ In healthcare, he is particularly interested in positive innovation: decreasing medical fraud; change to billing in US; platform to detect medical billing and medical issues 2️⃣ Environment = so many issues caused by humans and so much scope to innovate. Ishan says: ”When thinking about energy it allows me to think freely, like painting on a free form canvas. This is because it integrates so many disciplines: chemical engineering, physics, business practices and even great than that, is underpinned by philosophy and history” Keen to see what comes!

At just 18, Nextie Rose N. is already shaking up the scene in the tech and aerospace world! What is Rose up to? ⭐️ Head of Marketing and Product Management Minimis Technologies, a hardware and software tech startup, particularly targeting social media and phone addiction ⭐️ Studying Aerospace Engineering at UNSW ⭐️ Recently won the 2024 Innovator Pro Pitch Fest, 'This Sydney Life' with the City of Sydney council to improve and diversify nightlife 🔮 She has a super keen interest in startups to do with rockets 🚀 & space 🪐 and would love to found something in this area in the future. Here are Rose’s 5 biggest learnings over the past 3 years: 1. When you have a goal and vision for what you want in your future, it makes it far easier to be laser-focused, stay on track, be motivated and prioritise your time: ‘for me this is space’ 2. Strive for justice and always speak up for people whose voices may be underrepresented; recognise one’s privilege — that we did nothing to deserve the life and context we were born into — and try to use it to life other’s out of injustice: “I believe no one is free until we are all free” 3. Pass on the luck and opportunities you've been given: give other people the chances you have been given: pay it forward 4. Be kind to people and value everyone’s time, energy and work 5. Show the people around me that they matter to me a lot; try to show gratitude for people — even if it is awkward Check out some of Rose's recommendations and favourite quotes below!

Noah is the Co-Founder of both Flowback and AI Safety Sweden and was previously the CTO of Talentium (now a board member). 🎯 At Flowback, Noah and his cofounders are transforming company management into data-driven science. He likens this to what Renaissance technologies did to finance, except they are doing this to management using mathematics and data science. ‘Imagine taking a machine learning model and mapping that onto an organisation map as a whole… It is about integrating project management and decision making into one thing’. They do this through a workflow process called Tidal. 🎩 Meanwhile at Talentium, where Noah is on the board, the team is building an automated AI recruitment search engine. ⛑ AI Safety Sweden is a non-profit initiative to upskill the general public in AI safety and to foster a new generation of AI safety researchers. The basic idea behind AI safety as Noah describes it is “making sure AI systems do what we humans want them to do”. This has two sides: 1) Our understanding of AI (innovation) 2) Ethics (regulation & policy). He explained that AI systems are a giant neural network built out of a very minimalistic/simplistic series of synapses. We pour a giant amount of data into these networks and basically scale them up, with more layers making the performance of them go up — except as we do this, inside of them act as like a big black box. There is a shortcoming of understanding what is going inside of these giant matrices. So the goal is to get AI to do what we want it to do and then to be able to scale this up to general intelligence. 🚀 Excited for big things as Noah builds out Flowback and AI Safety Sweden!