Successful Dropout

At 25 years old, Jake is a two time published author with Penguin Random-House, (which is the number one publisher in the world by the way), he’s backpacked around the world, he’s given TED talks, he toured with Van’s warped tour in 2015 as their first inspiration speaker appearing in front of over 500,000 millennials and their parents, and most importantly to HIM during that tour Jake helped the nonprofit Feed Our Children Now raise over 345,000 pounds worth of food…and of course…he is also a dropout.

Chino is a serial entrepreneur and mobile growth consultant. At 18 he dropped out of University of Washington to start an app company called Select Apps. By night he built the company while working as a carpet cleaner by day. With zero marketing spent and zero outside capital the company published over 160 iOS apps and 30 Android apps with users across 155 countries worldwide. His world class knowledge in app store optimization better known as ASO has resulted in a top 1% ASO track record. Over 50 of his apps have hit Apple's top charts totaling about 5 million users. The app portfolio was acquired in 2016. Chino has appeared in social media publication like Yahoo Finance, Forbes, Inc, and Huffington Post. 

Chino seems like a very genuine guy who succeeded (and continues to do so) through pure grit and grind. What he did is possible for you to do too. We talk about how he was able to attract over 5 million app users with zero marketing or funding and how to elevate your worst case scenario. 

Letsie and I go deep in this episode talking about the future of learning and how to take control of your own education with an entrepreneurial flare. Whether you are in school or out, on your entrepreneurial journey or not, this episode will get you thinking and asking questions. 

Letsie is an Austin, TX based entrepreneur who brings a deeply transformative and effective approach to both education and business development. At age 26 he co-founded and let the Khabele School which was one of the first school in the country to embrace and institute entrepreneurship and daily mindfulness in it's methodology. Letsie was also the CEO of the tech software company Trails.by. He is currently the co-creator of the KoSchool, he's a philanthropist, public speaker and a leadership and strategy consultant. 

Mike is an entrepreneur, small business owner and video producer. He dropped out of Miami University in 2011 and started Clum Creative which has grown into a six person video production company recording $500,000 in billing for 2016. 

Mike and I discuss the difference between narrow passions and expansive passions, when to create a business plan, his dropout story, and what you should focus on as you start your own business. I would highly recommend checking out his website and videos, they are amazing!

Ryan is the founder and CEO of Newchip, a FinTech startup reinventing the financial landscape to bring exciting investment opportunities in emerging companies to small investors, new investors and millennials. He created Newchip as a way to make wealth and investing more accessible to the masses, while also specifically targeting people his own age - millennials. 

Ross is a full time real estate entrepreneur who made a life changing decision two and a half years ago to drop out of college, move from New York to Houston and quit his bartending job to create a real estate business. He did his first fix and flip two months into getting started and two and a half years later he has already done fifty fix and flips and built a solid team that is growing rapidly. He has also raised millions of dollars in private capital to buy deals. 

This week we have a special episode featuring a conversation between my good friend Stephen Olmon, my brother in law Auren O'Connell and myself. We talk about the big questions and thoughts you should keep in mind when trying to decided if college is right for you or not. Enjoy!

Mehak is the founder of Jamocha Media, a digital marketing agency that works primarily with early stage tech companies. Her firm specializes primarily in user acquisition and growth marketing. Before the launch of that company Mehak made YouTube videos on her channel "whatthemehak" where she documented her transition into college. Now she has transitioned her channel into daily vlogs and she makes videos about what it's like to be a young entrepreneur.

Anthony Zhang is 21 years old and he is the cofounder and CEO of EnvoyNow, a student-only-for-delivery app on college campuses. He dropped out in the beginning of 2016 in the middle of his junior year at the University of Southern California. Today, EnvoyNow is in 15 markets and employs over 1000 college students nationwide.

Mitch is 23 years old, the original Praxis participant, and Vice President of Authority Marketing at Advantage Media Group in Charleston, SC. Most of all, Mitch is a proud College Opt Out. He went from moving to Detroit by himself, being kicked out by his roommate, and having no money to rent elsewhere at the end of 2012... to making six figures within 2 1/2 years, living in beautiful Charleston.