Billion Dollar Idea
That epic moment when you are able to see something bigger than everyone else. When you see a pocket of possibility, some need or flaw in a system. Everyone else seems to be handling a situation in the same manner. Yet you see past the pattern of everyone else.
Hello, welcome to being a founder, a CEO, someone who conjures solutions and opens things the rest of us thought were closed.
Teen CEOs at School of Future enter the uncharted area that no one else conquered completely.
While the rest of the world recites the same facts and statements about issues, our students are sniffing around, trying to look between the spaces that everyone else assumes are the norm, or the only way of doing it.
Even if one doesn’t quite know what that new way of doing it is, when we see that there is room to make something, that we aren’t as “stuck” as we say we are, then hell, we’re on our way to building something that could work. And that’s 90% of the job. Seeing a space and filling it.
I was recently approached by a couple SoF alums. They proposed their business idea: to teach courses like web design and communication, and eventually get their clients jobs. I couldn't lie and say I hadn’t heard this type of setup before. But I still got fired up, and I wanted them to stand apart.
We had to discuss the fact that this market was oversaturated. And how do we solve for the oversaturated market, as opposed to just being an additional person in that market?
When we decided to not just compete with the thousands of other businesses that are similar, and we instead decided to solve for the oversaturated market, we were suddenly onto something bigger, something that would help the overall picture, and shape the way all could live.
You are trailblazing. You are finding a solution that can’t be found on youtube. You are solving the unknown. And if you get it, you are among the Thomas Edisons and Henry Fords (sorry I’m a Detroiter, and I have to represent our fine men). If you get it, your method becomes the new way we live.