I founded Jelly Wax at 18, burned out completely, and paused the business for nearly two years. Here are a few people who also started young or started over.
- David Shapiro runs The Shapiro Group here in Austin. He bought his first home at 20 and has been helping other people buy theirs since.
- Andy Sommer left a stable job at Monday.com in 2024 to bet on himself again. He now runs OffChance, a Houston studio and holding company for the brands he is building.
- Noah Berkson co-founded eight businesses and sold four of them by the age of 32. He also runs a single family office focused on financial technology.
I didn't build this site myself. Nick Gray and the people he works with did. If you like pages like this one, Tori has one too, and slashfriends.org keeps a directory of them.