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Jay Clouse: Design your life

Jay Clouse: Design your life

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Jay Clouse: Design your life

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(upbeat music) - So, when I was a freshman at the Ohio State University, I was that guy that had a bunch of app ideas. And there was a friend of mine in my dorm that was the guy that I usually pitched these ideas to. And, one of them, he said, that's a really cool idea you should go pitch that at this entrepreneurship club. I didn't know what an entrepreneurship club was or what a pitch competition was, but I applied and I got in. And I got to be one of seven teams that pitched in this competition. Just by luck a the draw, I had to go first. And I pitched and did a really bad job, but, because I went first, I got to watch the other six teams pitch after me. And suddenly I was watching people my age talk about the businesses they had started and the fact that they were making money and it just completely blew my mind. I didn't realize there was a path outside of the go to college, get a job, retire, type of path, and to see kids my age doing this and making their own way and making…

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