An exciting look at 75 contributors under age 20 who have done remarkable things, from entrepreneurship to athletics to music and more. Welcome to the future! 2 Billion Under 20 is a book, online community, and movement inspired by the 2 billion people in the world currently at or under the age of twenty. We stand for Millennials, Gen Z'ers, and those who want to better understand them and their unique potential. This book shows how we can all act on our passions and make a difference at any age. Young entrepreneurs Stacey Ferreira and Jared Kleinert have brought together 75 stories from ambitious young people like Paige McKenzie, who started her own YouTube channel at sixteen that now has more than 55 million views; Sam Mikulak, who's represented Team USA in the Olympics and is a seven-time NCAA champion in Men's Gymnastics; Jack Andraka, who developed an early detection test for pancreatic cancer at fifteen; Tallia Storm, a Scottish singer who was discovered by and opened a concert for Elton John, on her way to signing a record deal with Virgin Records; Dau Jok, who escaped civil war in South Sudan to become captain of the University of Pennsylvania's Division 1 basketball team and founder of a nonprofit to help youth in his native country, and many other accomplished and inspiring Millennials from all walks of life. Join the movement and change the world!

STACEY FERREIRA is co-founder of 2 Billion Under 20, and CEO of AdMoar, an online marketplace that matches brands with YouTubers for product placement opportunities on their channels. Previously, Stacey was the co-founder of MySocialCloud, an online password storage and management solution, that received $1.2M in funding from Sir Richard Branson, Jerry Murdock, and Alex Welch and was acquired by Reputation.com in 2013.

Ferreira has been featured on and contributed to news outlets including the cover of Seventeen Magazine, The Huffington Post, Women 2.0, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Forbes, and TEDx. She has been noted by MSN as one of "19 Ridiculously Successful College Dropouts Who Prove You Don't Need a College Degree." She was named as one of the "50 Startup Founders You Need To Follow on Twitter" on Forbes, and was named byBusiness Insider as one of few "Successful College Dropouts."


JARED KLEINERT is co-founder of 2 Billion Under 20, Founder of Kleinert Ventures, a marketing consulting firm whose clients include #1 New York Times bestselling authors, Olympians, start-ups, and Fortune 500s, Jared is an international public speaker discussing Millennial empowerment, youth entrepreneurship, community-building, and more on TEDx stages and in corporate boardrooms. He's shared the stage with various thought leaders including Kevin Harrington from ABC's Shark Tank, Les Brown, and international recording artist Pitbull.

Kleinert was previously an early team member at enterprise software start-up 15Five, as well as edtech start-up Learnist, and successfully started (and spectacularly failed) two start-ups of his own at 15 and 16 years old. At 17, he was named the "Definition of Social Entrepreneur" by Forbes, and has since also appeared in Fast Company, Techcrunch, Business Insider, Huffington Post, and other media outlets.

Foreword: Blake Masters
Introduction
PART I: START
. Collete Davis: Life in the Fast Lane
. Bamidele Onibalusi: Getting Started Making Money Online
. Daniel Brusilovsky: How Founding "Teens in Tech" When I Was Fifteen Changed My Life Forever
. Andrew Audie: Apple, House Parties, and Leaving Wisconsin
. Tyler Arnold: The Most Unusual Word for an Entrepreneur
. Emmanuel Nyame: How It All Started . . . And How You Can Start, Too
. Edward Lando: My 500-Hour Summer (Because Sometimes All You Need Is One Summer Free of Obligations)
. Kirill Chekanov: Making Your Passion Your Lifestyle
. Adib Ayay: Curbing Poverty
. Zoe Wolszon: Finding Your Camp Half-Blood
. Charlotte Bravin Lee: The Importance of the Teen Voice
. Jaxson Khan: Making Students Partners in Education
. Safeer Mohiuddin: Selling $100,000 Worth of iPhones
. Joe Previte: From a Cold E-Mail to an Internship in San Francisco
. Alexandra A. Saba: On Vulnerability and Finding One's Way
PART II: RISK
. Dau Jok: Strive to Thrive
. Buntu Redempter: How Genocide in Burundi Bred a Global Innovator
. Darby Schumacher: I Am Miss Metropolitan, And I Am Good Enough
. Jasmine Gao: On Losing and Dropping Out
. Maidson Maxley: Skating on Californian Hills - A Reflection on Wiping Out
. Noah Centino: What Hollywood, In-N-Out Burger, and Parkour Taught Me About Taking Risks
. Anwit Adhikari: Perpetual Energy
. Michelle Lynn: What Does It Take to Make It In Hollywood?
. Vijay Manohar: Bridging the Digial Divide
. Zoe Mesnik-Greene: What's a Smile Worth to You?
. Alpha Barrie: Turning Gangsters into Anti-Drug Advocates
. Brandon Wang: On Flying
. Daniel Ahmadizadeh: Connecting Flights, Stories, and Experiences . . . This is Who We Are
. Kevin Breel: What Do You Do?
PART III: JOURNEY
. Samuel Mikulak: My Road to the Olympics in London 2012
. Kristen Powers: I Lost My Mom, But Gained a Purpose
. Alex Jeffrey: Find Your Gift, Give Your Gift!
. Ryan Orbuch: The Day We Beat Out Angry Birds on the App Store
. Caine Monry: My Arcade - From Cardboard Boxes to a Worldwide Phenomenon
. Payal Lal: That's It!
. Patrick Lung: We Are All Better Together
. Ben Lang: Bad Breakups
. Brittany McMillan: Saving Thousands of Lives (And Inspiring Millions) Through Spirit Day
. Erik N. Martin: Anorexia Nervosa and Abraham Lincoln
. Ash Bhat: Why Try If You're Going To Fail?
. Ariel Hsing: Rallying My Way to the Olympics
. Stephen Ou: My Journey Before Programming
. Corey Freeman: I'm a Black, Lesbian, Female, College Dropout, OCD, Internet Entrepreneur
PART IV: LEARN
. Conrad Farnsworth: Farnsworth Faces His Fate of Fusion
. Mohnish Soundararajan: What Khakis and Cookie Flavors Taught Me About Life
. Javier Sandoval: What I Learned From the Seventy-Something-Year-Old Bachelor
. Michael Costigan: How I'm Turning My Audience into a Platform
. Peter Solway: What Competing for a Tennis Grand Slam Taught Me about Character
. Fletcher Richam: "The Startup of You" as a Student
. Brett Neese: I Could Have Run Away . . . But I Didn't
. Nick Liow: The Stereotype of a Socially Awkward Programmer
. Victoria Chok: Choices
. Tessa Zimmerman: The Three Lessons for Success
. Romain Vikilitabar: Lessons Learned from Surviving in the Saharan Desert
. Zak Kukoff: Five Minutes
. Arshdeep Sidhu: Running with Opportunities
. Aaron Kleinert: Finding a Balance as a Highly Recruited Student Athlete
. Christopher Pruijsen: Birth and Rebirth as a Burner . . . It Took a While to Get Home
. Erik Arellano: One Drop in a Slow Ocean
PART V: SUCCESS
. Jack Andraka: Just Imagine What You Could Do
. Simon Burns: What is the Definition of Success?
. Cam Perron: Stepping into the Big Leagues
. Tallia Storm: Discoveryourstorm
. Taylor Amarel: With Pride and Humility
. Micaela Chapa: How I Lost 165 Pounds and Saved My Own Life
. Pulkit Jaiswal: Being Fired from Your Own Company
. Paige McKenzie: Adorkable
. Mariah Spears: When You Become Stagnant, You Die
. Tyne Angela Freeman: The Keys to Success in Music and Life
. Lou Wegner: How Hundreds of Kids Have Saved Thousands of Animals
. Olivia Bouler: Saving the Gulf - One Drawing at a Time
. Vanessa Restrepo Schild: A Seventeen-Year-Old Scientist
. Leora Friedman: Writing the Lyrics to a Little Girl's Dream
. Karan Kashyap: Mikey's Run: A Mission to Aid Boston Marathon Bombing A…