Key Line: “My mom thought I was a drug dealer, but drug dealers don’t get checks in the mail.”
There are few people who can say “yeah, I created and sold my own successful startup.” There are even fewer people who can say that they did it before they hit their 20th birthday. Enter James Proud, a Peter Thiel 20 under 20 Fellow, and the 20-year-old tech and coding expert who is already making a splash in the business world before most people have graduated college. James talks about teaching himself how to code, how he got the idea for GigLocator (his first startup), and about what drives his ambition.
