We're Featured in Valiant CEO Magazine!

Young CEO Squad was interviewed and featured in ValiantCEO, a national publication for entrepreneurs that reaches more than 100,000 monthly readers. The article spends real time on a popular question: how do we prepare kids for a future no one can fully predict? The answer running through the piece is that entrepreneurship skills like resilience, adaptability, critical thinking, and problem-solving hold incredible value no matter how technology changes, and those are the muscles real entrepreneurship teaches.

We have news worth sharing!! ValiantCEO published a feature on Young CEO Squad and the work happening in classrooms across the country.

ValiantCEO is a national business publication built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. It covers founders, business leaders, and the ideas moving different industries forward. Being asked to share the Young CEO Squad story with that readership means a lot, and it puts the conversation about early entrepreneurship education in front of exactly the people who can help it grow.

Here are a few of the ideas the article touches:

Entrepreneurship is a mindset, and it starts young

The piece opens on a simple reframing. Entrepreneurship most often gets tied to adulthood, business plans, and startup culture, but at its core it's a way of thinking. We pose that the earlier kids build that way of thinking, the better prepared they are for a future AI is reshaping quickly. Young CEO Squad puts that into practice by letting elementary and middle school students launch real businesses rather than just read about them. They sell products, talk to customers, set pricing, track expenses, and record profits, and every sale becomes a chance to practice communication, decision-making, and financial literacy inside a supportive classroom.

Judgment is the skill AI can't replace

The article spends real time on the question parents keep asking: how do you prepare kids for a future no one can fully predict? The answer running through the piece is that AI can hand a student information, but the student still has to ask whether it's true and whether it's what they want to say.

Built to help the teacher, not more work for the teacher

The feature also covers how the program is designed around the reality busy teachers face. Every Workshop in a Box arrives ready to use, curriculum guide and products included, so a teacher can open the box, hand everything out, and students begin. Many schools reinvest the proceeds into classroom projects, from 3D printers to future ventures, so students watch their own effort create lasting value for their community.

One experience becomes a skill set

The article walks through the stepped journey too. Grades 3 through 5 build confidence and their first taste of ownership. Middle school moves into marketing psychology, consumer behavior, branding, teamwork, and assembly-line production. High school products, now in development, open into AI, consulting, and helping real Main Street businesses solve practical problems.

You can read the full ValiantCEO feature here: The Classroom Where Children Learn to Think Like Founders.

About the Author

Suzanne Appel is the founder of Young CEO Squad, a hands-on entrepreneurship education company now in 300+ classrooms nationwide. After 25 years in digital marketing, she built Young CEO Squad to give every kid the kind of real-world business experience that report cards don't measure, a stepped program that takes students from their first classroom business through applying AI inside real companies.

If this resonated, please pass this along to your school district or favorite teacher friend.

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