EJ Carrion is a Co-Founder & CEO of Student Success Agency which collaborates with high schools across the US bringing innovative, mobile mentoring to students on college admissions and scholarships. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and presented at The White House as a social entrepreneur impacting student success.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Elon Musk
- Dr Dre
- Gary Vaynerchuck
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Articulating simply what you do, messaging and storytelling is probably to me the biggest skill when you’re trying to do something new, vagueness and lack of articulation is going to be your initial challenge because you have an idea, you have this hunch but you’re only going to be able to articulate it and simplify it and story tell the more people you tell”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets Book by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson and Christopher Lochhead
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Book by Yuval Noah Harari
Favourite Quote:
“You don’t work you don’t eat, you don’t grind you don’t shine”|
Recommended Online Resources:
None Specific
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“The most richest entrepreneurs, at the beginning of the race is the one with the least amount of expenses, the one who could live off the least amount of money, when you can be frugal and you don’t have a high month to month bill, I sometimes think the richest person in the world is the person who has the least amount of bills to pay at the beginning of the month because when you start as an entrepreneur that’s going to be your number one problem”…[Listen for More]
More About EJ Carrion:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Other Quotes From the Chat with EJ Carrion:
- “Success is easy because all it is is hard work”
- “ Uber, Air BnB, none of these tried to fix current categories, they designed new categories”
- “Believe in a purpose that makes you feel significant regardless of if you actually are significant”
- “Bet on who you are and your approach to getting there”
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