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Young and visionary: Meet the finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards
April 23, 2021 at 9:18 am
Coverage of the 2021 GeekWire Awards, presented by Wave Business, the Pacific NW’s annual startup and technology awards. See all coverage.
Taking the entrepreneurial leap at any age can be daunting. Starting and operating a startup in your 20s, or even teen years, takes gumption and vision.
Our Young Entrepreneur of the Year award celebrates startup founders in the Pacific Northwest who are 30 or younger at some point in 2020 or 2021. Last year, Legalpad co-founder Sara Itucas took home this honor.
This year’s finalists include six rising stars in the startup community who have navigated not only the challenges of entrepreneurship but of doing so through a global pandemic.
He walked away before I could respond.
The following week, I got a call: Steve Kalafer wanted to talk.
It turned out that Kalafer, a Hall of Fame business leader who owned car dealerships, a minor-league baseball team, served on a variety of boards, participated in numerous philanthropic efforts and was nominated for four Academy Awards as the producer of documentaries, loved journalism.
Especially at the local level.
Kalafer said he loved the power and prestige the industry once had. He longed for it to have such importance again. He somehow knew I was then the editor of NJBIZ.
“Society was better when every politician woke up wondering what was going to be on the front page of the paper,” he told me during our first talk.
At least, that’s how Gov. Phil Murphy described it when he was candidate Phil Murphy.
Getting there isn’t as simple.
So said Andrew Zwicker, who doubles as both a physicist and a professor at the famed Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and an assemblyman representing the 16
th District.
To coincidence with the release of the first-ever ROI Influencers: Technology list, we asked Zwicker if Murphy’s push to have New Jersey reclaim its global reputation is resonating in the science community.
“I would say, ‘We’re getting there,’” he said.
That’s hardly a precise, scientific answer, but Zwicker said the question is not easily answered.
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