SPECIAL REPORT: Twenty In Their 20s

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Picture the stereotypical twentysomething entrepreneur. Maybe they wear hoodies to work. They might like to tell you how they’re disrupting one thing or another. Maybe they look a bit like the guys from Soylent.

Now check out Noah Cowan. Yes, that’s him in the dust mask, sharpening a custom-handled knife. No hoodie, no app, no creative office space. And even if Soylent’s four founders look the part and have the backing of a big venture capital firm, they don’t quite fit the Silicon Valley or Silicon Beach stereotype, either. They engineer food, not software, and they count lots of long-haul truckers among their fans. Read their stories and those of other local business founders – all in their 20s, and all hard to pigeonhole – in this special report, the Business Journal’s annual roundup of 20 up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Profiled:

John Goldbranson

Abhi Eswarappa

Noah Cowan

Jordan Furniss and Taylor Moss

Michael Townsend and Kyle Hill

Dan Morad

Ali Sipher and Melanie Shaul

Jesse Genet and Stephan Ango

Shreena Grewal

Rob Rhinehart, Matt Cauble, David Renteln and John Coogan

Ramin Ghaneeian and Ramtin Ghaneeian

Francesca Aiello