5 Startups With Founders At A Young Age: Success After 25!

Pursuing a career and becoming an entrepreneur from an early age is a dream for all generations, even more so if you become an entrepreneur founder from successful startups aged 25 and over. Often underestimated, the millennial generation in Indonesia is usually only seen as young people who often spend their time wasting money, without thinking about their future. Whereas in reality, many millennials in Indonesia are now starting to start their careers either by selling or doing small businesses, to foster a brighter future and guarantee in old age. 

If you look at the current process, the reality in front of your eyes is enough to prove that the millennial generation in Indonesia has started to realize the importance of investing or doing business. The ease of access to take care of daily needs that can be obtained easily through a one-click application has in fact become a genius invention of the Indonesian millennial generation.

The rise of companies with all their inventions, many millennials are now starting to be motivated to achieve success, by starting a business in the field they control while helping to solve community problems, by creating new innovations through building a startup. Here are a series of startups with millennial founders. What are the startups? 

• GO-JEK

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If you remember that the main purpose of making a startup is to solve problems in society, then GO-JEK is one answer. Success in helping the mobility of the Indonesian people with transportation innovations online, founder of GO-JEK, Nadiem Makarim, has had a positive impact on the daily lives of Indonesian people. At the young age of 26, Nadiem has sparked brilliant ideas by providing convenience services that do not only exist in transportation, but also develop into Go-Food delivery services, Go-Send goods delivery, to the transportation of goods, namely Go-Box. , as well as other features that can be used through the application at smartphone, with one click. 

• Tokopedia

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If you like shopping, of course gak will be unfamiliar with this one startup. Working in the field of e-commerce, Tokopedia which has been established since 2009 has a relatively young founder. When they were 26 years old, William Tanuwijaya and Leontinus Alpha Edison had successfully inaugurated Tokopedia, on August 17 to coincide with Indonesia's independence day. Thanks to the enthusiasm of customers, launching from Business, Tokopedia was successfully selected as Marketeers of the Year and Best Company in Consumer Industry from Indonesia in May 2016. 

• Traveloka 

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Traveloka is one of the successful Indonesian startups with a degree unicorn. Founded by Ferry Unardi at the age of 23, initially, this startup managed to serve its customers by searching for airline ticket price comparisons from various sites. Until mid-2013, Traveloka finally had an independent flight ticket service specifically for loyal users. Thanks to its success, Traveloka has succeeded in capturing the attention of other companies such as East Venture, Expedia, and others to become investors. 

• SayurBox 

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Aiming to advance local farmers, Amanda Cole, this beautiful 28-year-old woman has served more than 50 thousand customers by providing fresh vegetables through the platform. SayurBox. Per day, SayurBox can send more than 1000 shipments of vegetables to customers and partner with more than 300 plantations. Thanks to her services and hard work, Amanda has won the Seedstars Jakarta startup competition, and received funding of more than 2 million USD. 

• decoration 

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This startup that bridges between customers and interior vendors has been downloaded by more than 100 thousand Android users. Aruna Harsa, as the founder of decoration founded his startup at a fairly young age, which is 28 years old. In addition to being a communication bridge between customers and interior vendors who sell a variety of furniture, Dekoruma also provides consulting services for installation services. 

Those are a few of the many successful founders who represent the millennial generation. They all must believe, that no effort betrays the results. Because, to be successful as it is now, of course, there are many obstacles that must be faced. Are you getting inspired to start a startup too?

**Disclosure: This article was written by Dessita Natasya