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Edited By Sharmila Bhadoria
As a school going kid, coding expert and owner of a $20 million fund, fifteen-year-old Eric Zhu has a lot to do at this young age. That's why he resorted to his school bathroom to attend his classes and business meeting at the same time
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At a time when children are busy struggling with their school assignments, this 15-year-old entrepreneur from USA is making money in his school bathroom! Eric Zhu, co-founder, and CEO of Aviato, a platform to ease startup funding, skilfully manages his classes and business deals simultaneously at school. All he needs is to take a bio-break from his ongoing class, only to reach the toilet and start his meeting with investors.
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Till now, the young startup owner has earned $100k of funding in two weeks, all from his school's bathroom stalls. Eric’s business mind is not his only speciality as the young prodigy is also famous for his quirky tweets. He has around 50.7k followers on Twitter.
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Other than the amount of success he has achieved at such a young age, the manner in which he is handling his schools and work simultaneously has earned him applaud.
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In his recent tweet, he shared the screenshot of his father’s messages who was worried because of his bathroom Zoom meetings as he received complaints from Eric's school authorities.
“It was over for me that day," he tweeted.
From his past tweets, it is easy to figure out that his school authority is not very much happy with his bathroom Zoom meetings during classes. But, that hasn’t stopped Eric from cracking deals and continuing his business.
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He sold his first company at 14 years of age and is continuing to do wonders with his startup firm Aviato.
“I just work on the company full-time and crush it in the bathroom. I just make up some diarrhea excuse and ask to use the restroom. I work on the company full-time and crush it in the bathroom," Asian founder quoted Eric.
While sharing his experience of learning coding, Eric said that he learnt to code with the help of internet. Despite taking coding classes for two years, it was only after when he began teaching the subject for non-profit, he got to understand the subject, recalled the young entrepreneur in his interview to Asian Founder.
Eric's parents are first generation immigrants. His mother is a doctor and his father is a scientist in Indiana, USA. And they are still hoping that their child will become a doctor one day.
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Published: 11 May 2023, 07:00 AM IST
