We're constantly amazed by revolutionary new companies, products, and ideas — especially when they're launched by young people.
We found the most inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs under the age of 40.
Whether they're in finance, tech, sports, entertainment, media, science, food, or retail, these people are introducing amazing new products and ideas and shaking up their industries forever.
Sahm Adrangi
Role: Founder of Kerrisdale Capital
Age: 32
The hedge fund up-and-comer made "a couple million" in 2011 by shorting U.S.-listed Chinese companies, and now his fund has $250 million in assets under management — not a huge amount, but very impressive in the finance world for someone Adrangi's age.
People liken him to his idol, Dan Loeb, who also started off in hedge funds at a young age. But what distinguishes Adrangi — the world's first social media-savvy investor — from his peers according to New York Magazine, is his Twitter presence: His firm Kerrisdale Capital often tweets its positions, a move which was largely unheard of before, but is now being echoed by more prominent hedge fund managers like Carl Icahn.
Sophia Amoruso
Role: Founder of Nasty Gal
Age: 29
The hip, tattooed 29-year-old started Nasty Gal as an eBay store specializing in cool vintage women's clothing in 2006. Since then, the website has grown tremendously with more than $100 million in sales and more than 550,000 customers around the world. Last year the company was named the fastest-growing retailer by Inc. magazine, which also named Amoruso to their 30 Under 30 list this year.
Probably the most amazing thing of it all is that Sophia Amoruso had never worked in fashion before Nasty Gal — she was just a well-dressed young woman (and a college dropout) with a good eye for fashion.
Dominique Ansel
Role: Pastry chef, owner of Dominique Ansel Bakery
Age: 35
Dominique Ansel's cronut — a doughnut-croissant hybrid rolled in sugar, filled with cream, and topped with glaze — took the food world by storm this summer like no other food trend has before. Customers line up between 5 and 6 a.m. (hours before the bakery opens) to snag one, shelling out $5 a pop.
Classically trained in Paris, Ansel took two months and tried more than 10 recipes to perfect the sweet pastry. Since the cronut craze, Ansel has also introduced a number of other daring new foods into the market including the frozen s'more and the magic soufflé — a chocolate Grand Marnier soufflé wrapped in an orange blossom brioche that, unlike other soufflés, never collapses.
Major brands have also realized Ansel's potential and are partnering with him to get their own around-the-block lines, like Shake Shack's recent partnership with him to create the limited-time-only Cronut Concrete.
Ansel's next creation will be his upcoming cookbook, "Dominique Ansel: The Secret Recipes," which comes out this month.
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