Founder & Lead Mentor
The expert behind the system.
Not a bio to admire. A track record built specifically so this system could exist, and so your student could use it too.
Not a bio to admire. A track record built specifically so this system could exist, and so your student could use it too.
The founder built multiple profitable ventures while still in high school, including one that scaled from nothing to multi-five-figure revenue in just 3 months, at age 17. No outside capital, no existing network, no track record to lean on. Just a system, applied directly by the person who now teaches it.
This is a rare outcome, not an exaggerated one, and rarity is exactly why it's worth learning from someone who has actually done it.
A high school teacher, a guidance counselor, or a college professor cannot teach this, not because they aren't smart or well-meaning, but because they haven't done it. A cold email to a random founder or mentor can't replicate it either, because that person hasn't stood exactly where your student is standing: a highschooler with no capital, no network, and no track record, who then built something that generated real revenue from that exact starting point.
That distinction is the whole point of SVS. The guidance your student gets is genuinely 1:1, hands-on building time, not generic advice pulled from a book or a framework someone read about. It comes from someone who has done the exact thing your student is trying to do, from the exact same starting position.
What happened at 17 wasn't a one-off. It was the result of a system: a repeatable process for identifying an opportunity, testing it, building toward it, and pushing it to real traction. Once the fundamentals and the 1:1 working relationship are established during the sprint, that system becomes something your student can exploit again and again, on their own, long after the cohort ends.
Part of the system is a principle we call attention as currency: teaching your student to leverage what they build to attract opportunities they didn't think were available to them (colleges, internships, further ventures, press, and network access). The goal isn't just the build itself. It's the compounding opportunity that a real build creates.
This isn't a theory. It's what the founder used on himself: putting the build out publicly turned into 3 internship offers in a single summer (one turned down to keep building the company) and close to 1,000 organic LinkedIn followers, with no ad spend. He has also spent over 9 months working directly, 1:1, with students before formalizing SVS. That is the same leverage your student is taught to build for themselves.
The founder was accepted to Emory, UIUC, UCSD, and UW-Seattle, and waitlisted at NYU. These outcomes aren't listed to impress: they're listed because they prove the system works end to end. The system teaches your student how to run a real venture build in parallel with a competitive college application process, and how to use that build as the centerpiece of their own applicant narrative and builder-spirit story. It's the method of combining building and applying that matters here, not the outcomes as trophies.
"This system can be replicated by your student, to build something bigger than a typical extracurricular, guided by someone who has actually stood where they're standing."
Cohort 1 begins October 1. Applications close September 25.