Amin Shaykho, 23
- Hometown: Seattle
- Residence: Bellevue
- Company/project name: Kadama
- Founded: October 2020
What does your company/project do? The Kadama app is the most fun way for students to learn. Students come on the app for urgent school help and stay for the fun events, rewards and social community. Kadama has the largest education social media brand, with close to 2 million followers across TikTok and Instagram.
How did you come up with the idea? As Gen-Z founders during the Covid-19 pandemic, we quickly noticed that the most popular activities among students are learning online and consuming content on social media. Realizing that students were seeking fun ways to learn, we started building a platform immersed with interactive experiences and communities that would appeal to them. Then, we created a cool, exciting and relatable brand around learning through quirky educational videos that would accumulate over half a billion views.
What advice do you have for young entrepreneurs? When a huge opportunity presents itself, most people will quickly turn it down because they fear failure. Then, there will be those who think they can calculate every move, pursue it, then realize that failure is unavoidable and quickly strikeout. Finally, there will be that 1%. They will be incredibly driven and outpace the rest. They will embrace and learn from failures. They’ll keep swinging until one day, after countless failures and lessons from all the unsuccessful swings, they hit a home run.
Other interests? Spending time with friends and family, playing sports like tennis, hiking, camping, traveling, creating social media videos, keeping up with the latest technology, meeting new people, learning new things.
