Justin Traub is building a company called motivategen.com. This motivational speaking and coaching platform will reach out to 25 million depressed teens and their parents to coach them through their kids depression. Justin was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, and suffered severe depression from the age of 8 to the age of 17. Despite the setback, he graduated high school with a 3.2 GPA, and went through the International Baccalaureate programme. He started his first company when he was 16. Justin is fully bicultural and bilingual in English and Mandarin, and is a keen mountain biker, snowboarder, and motivational speaker.
He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MotivateGen, and a Co-Founder of TeenNet. Justin is based in Los Angeles, but travels regularly to New York, San Francisco and Taipei to film episodes for MotivateGen.
He’s been shortlisted for Peter Theils 20 under 20 award and
nominated for Forbes 30 under 39. Yes he’s quite a kid.
He’s stopping by the show today.
http://www.motivategen.com
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