A new wave of teenage entrepreneurs is building real businesses around artificial intelligence—often before they can drive a car, The Wall Street Journal writes.
Armed with generative AI tools, social media savvy and low-cost startup infrastructure, high school-age founders are launching products, attracting users and drawing the attention of venture capitalists.
One 15-year-old founder has built an AI-powered financial research platform with tens of thousands of monthly users, largely by prompting existing models rather than writing code from scratch. Others are applying AI to logistics, inventory forecasting and software development, sometimes raising millions in early funding.
Investors say the barrier to entry for building functional software has dropped dramatically, allowing younger founders to move faster than previous generations. At the same time, distribution remains a challenge—one these teens often try to solve through platforms like Reddit, TikTok and X.
While some investors question whether teenagers have the maturity to scale companies long term, many agree AI is accelerating entrepreneurship and pushing the average age of founders steadily downward.
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