Name: Palmer Luckey
Profession: Founder of Oculus VR
Age: 23
Quote: “I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn’t an interest that started there at all”
Name: Nik Grishakov
Profession: Founder of ShipIt
Age: 25
Quote: “ShipIt will help you earn money while travelling”
Name: Drake
Profession: Music
Age: 29
Quote: “I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‘Man, I said too much.’ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me”
Name: Candice Swanepoel
Profession: Modelling
Age: 27
Quote: “Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too”
Name: Mohamed Salah
Profession: Soccer
Age: 24
Quote: “Anything is possible but I don’t control the future”
Name: Alan Schaaf
Profession: Founder of Imgur
Age: 28
Quote: “It wasn’t supposed to be a business”
Name: Alex Banayan
Profession: Venture Capitalist
Age: 23
Quote: “I’m terrible at talking to girls and I can’t throw a football–but I do have a knack for finding people’s email addresses online”
Name: Apu Biswas
Profession: Movies
Age: 26
Quote: “Don’t forget to smile with others. Keep it up and you will be a success”
Name: Shakib Al Hasan
Profession: Cricket
Age: 29
Quote: “There are a good number of marriage offers. I’ve lost count of the number”
Name: Alia Bhatt
Profession: Movies
Age: 23
Quote: “I see myself as a successful actor only”
Name: Virat Kohli
Profession: Cricket
Age: 27
Quote: “Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to”
Name: Jason Wang
Profession: Founder of Caviar
Age: 28
Quote: “The goal is to get to ‘ramen’ profitability, which will allow you to survive financially indefinitely. This means focusing on the ‘need to have’ rather than the ‘nice to haves’ and really investing in the business first”
Name: Jeffrey Rosen
Profession: Co-founder of Humble Bundle
Age: 28
Quote: “When considering any kind of DRM, we have to ask ourselves, ‘How many legitimate users is it OK to inconvenience in order to reduce piracy?’ The answer should be none”
Name: John Collison
Profession: Co-founder of Stripe
Age: 25
Quote: “I often wonder if it’s desirable to grow up somewhere boring because you’re forced to find your own interests”
Name: Kiah Williams
Profession: Co-founder of SIRUM
Age: 28
Quote: “I believe health care is a fundamental right, and that health equity sets the stage for reducing inequality”
Name: Malala Yousafzai
Profession: Activist
Age: 18
Quote: “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world”
Name: Michelle Phan
Profession: Founder of Ipsy
Age: 27
Quote: “It’s very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that’s hard”
Name: Nat Turner
Profession: Co-founder of Flatiron Health
Age: 28
Quote: “Flatiron is organizing that other 96% and making it useful for physicians, patients and researchers”
Name: Nevada Sanchez
Profession: Co-founder of Butterfly Network
Age: 26
Quote: “I studied a lot of subjects at MIT, ranging from computer science and electrical engineering to physics and mathematics”
Name: Nick D’Aloisio
Profession: Founder of Summly
Age: 20
Quote: “My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money’s come, nothing’s changed”
Name: Kathryn Bernardo
Profession: TV Actress
Age: 20
Quote: “Think less. LIVE MORE”
Name: Hussain Asif
Profession: YouTube
Age: 22
Quote: “It’s quite difficult to gain the courage to ask my father for a selfie. Especially cause he is far more handsome”
Name: Patrick Collison
Profession: Co-founder of Stripe
Age: 27
Quote: “Our goal definitely isn’t to sell Stripe”
Name: PewDiePie
Profession: YouTube
Age: 26
Quote: “When I started my YouTube channel in 2010, I never imagined that one day it would be the most subscribed channel in the world and that I would be a part of such a great community”
Name: Richard Sherman
Profession: NFL
Age: 28
Quote: “I know some ‘thugs,’ and they know I’m the furthest thing from a thug. I’ve fought that my whole life, just coming from where I’m coming from”
Name: James Rodriguez
Profession: Soccer
Age: 24
Quote: “I never want to play badly, I always try and help the team, but things do not always go as you want”
Name: Zach Sims
Profession: Co-founder of Codeacademy
Age: 25
Quote: “Everything I own is made of weird”
Name: Zain Jaffer
Profession: CEO & co-founder of Vungle
Age: 27
Quote: “There’s this myth that the user-acquisition market is propped up by VC dollars. That’s not true”
Name: Ritesh Agarwal
Profession: Founder and CEO of OYO Rooms
Age: 22
Quote: “You know what OYO’s abbreviated form is? ‘OnYour Own'”. “And it was because I couldn’t have the remote control at relatives’ homes (that I thought of starting OYO Rooms)”
Name: Carl Pei
Profession: Co-founder of OnePlus
Age: 26
Quote: “A day’s power in half an hour!”
