| |  | | Ben Casnocha | | 19 Year-Old Entrepreneur & Author | | Ben started his first company when he was 12 years-old and is currently on the board of Comcate, Inc., an e-government software company he founded at age 14.
Ben's work has been featured in dozens of international media including CNN and USA Today. At a conference in Paris PoliticsOnline named him one of the "25 most influential people in the world of internet and politics".
He recently graduated from high school where he was two-year captain of the varsity basketball team, editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, and founder of a failed campus radio station.
Ben is the author of the forthcoming book My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley (Jossey-Bass, May '07) and writes prolifically on his blog which the San Jose Business Journal recently called one of the "Top 25 Blogs in Silicon Valley."
BusinessWeek recently named Ben "one of America's top young entrepreneurs."
For two years Ben served on the California Advisory Board of BizWorld Foundation, a non-profit deploying entrepreneurship curriculum into 5th grade classrooms around the world.
He also co-runs the Silicon Valley Junto, an intellectual discussion society for business and technology executives.
In his free time Ben enjoys playing chess, ping-pong, reading, and writing. |
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