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Fortune
Fortune
Business
Jake Angelo

Meet the 20-year-old CEO who launched a company in high school to solve Gen Z's entry-level job crisis

connor vukelich (Credit: Courtesy of Poppin' Jobs)

For most teenagers, earning a driver’s license at 16 is a milestone of independence. It grants them the liberty to drive to a friend’s house on their own time, to see a movie, and to skip the bus to school. For Connor Vukelich, at 16, it was the catalyst for launching his business.

After earning his driver’s license in high school, Vukelich was looking for a job. But he and his friends all kept running into the same problem: it was nearly impossible to find one. Most were being out-competed by senior-level applicants, applying to “ghost jobs,” and going through interviews just to get ghosted by employers. 

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