An Entrepreneur in four countries, Lloyd is the founder of a top youth entrepreneurship coaching program that develops high schoolers' crucial creative abilities, as well as global, multi-year passion projects known as 'Spikes. The founder has joined us to discuss the program's roots and future goals.
With it being a startup surrounding high schools, it's hard to find the time for something like this, are you finding people that are interested?
"With Spike Labs I haven't seen the same rocket-like takeoff compared to other boot camps and it is earlier days but people still launch things for two reasons one because it's exciting and you learn a lot. There’s also the factor of motivation purposes, College admissions and self-confidence. To answer your question it is taking off but it's a commitment, like if you were to take a sport seriously or a musical interest. It's one more vertical that people hadn’t thought about as much but now they're starting to because it's around us everywhere. "
"A huge difference, I wouldn't keep doing this for 6 years if I didn't see any difference or promise in it. It's so exciting to see a young person sort of put things out to the world for the first time and the world responds. Colleges respond fairly quickly because it's a no-brainer and they want to fill their campuses with dynamic people. They obviously care about grades and other academic factors, not just spikes but they love it. If you're a pretty good student, then they're looking for something else that makes you stand out and spikes are just that! "
