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in 2012 as the cofounder of 2U, an education technology company that helps universities create online degree programs, in 2012. He left the company soon after it went public in 2014 to cofound Andela. His new company works to solve the tech-worker shortage in the United States by identifying and training software developers in Africa and then embedding them into the remote engineering teams of companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google.
“I was still young and it felt like it was the time to leave; I couldn’t stop thinking about the idea for Andela,” says Johnson. He quickly attracted attention from the likes of Al Gore and Mark Zuckerberg, raising $181 million in total. “Now we have become the primary pipeline connecting the technology ecosystems across Africa with the U.S.,” he says.
But the majority of Under 30 alumni joining this year’s list are first-time founders still navigating what it means to lead a fast-growing company. Conrad Irwin, born in Leicester, U.K., cofounded Superhuman the day after his green card was approved when he was age 25. His previous experience: Intern turned engineer at cofounder Rahul Vohra’s previous startup, plug-in Rapportive, before it was acquired by LinkedIn.
“As an intern you’re just given tasks. . . . So being a leader was a little bit dicey,” says Irwin, now 30. Ultimately, though, he figures that success springs from the ability to learn. “Age is less relevant than the attitude toward continually improving.”
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