ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: Entrepreneur Against the World | Gerard Adams | TEDxNJIT

Here’s Great Tip: Entrepreneur Against the World | Gerard Adams | TEDxNJIT

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Gerard Adams shows in 18 minutes his fourteen years as an entrepreneur, his inspiration from Tony Robbins and how to embrace failure. Known as the Millennial Mentor Gerard Adams founded Elite Daily, the “Voice of Gen Y” which sold to the Daily Mail for $50 million in 2015. Adams went on to build Fownders, the social-impact startup accelerator making waves in Newark, New Jersey.

Gerard. Also known as The Millennial Mentor™. is a thought leader, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and philanthropist. His purpose is simple: to inspire other Millennials to leverage their passions to create the successful lifestyles they dream of. He became a self-made multi-millionaire at 24, but not without overcoming obstacles, fear, and self-doubt. He left college early, after a semester to be exact, to pave his own path. In recent years he invested in, built, and backed 9 companies and trades that have all made seven figures. He has lived bi-coastal, owned exotic cars, traveled the world first class, and made friends with countless influencers. Today he is a co-founder of Fownders a non-profit community of entrepreneur located on the ground floor of a brand new 4 story live-work space, in the heart of Newark’s booming University Heights neighborhood.

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