Future of the Business World Podcast · Wharton Global Youth Program

A Growing Entrepreneurial Mindset Opens a Startup to Opportunities

January 19, 2024·21 min·1 clip
He's a high school student running Silicon Valley's first youth-led consulting firm.
Darsh Shah, a Silicon Valley high school senior, built Rising C-Suites, a youth-led consulting firm that helps student entrepreneurs scale their ideas. Through a three-stage model pairing discovery, action planning, and specialized consulting, he's coached dozens of founders while assembling an international team and landing a multi-year partnership with Berkeley.

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A clear student-founder story about collaboration, growth, and the work behind credibility.

Diana Drake keeps the conversation grounded while a high school student from California talks through how Rising C-Suites grew from a student idea into a youth-led consulting firm.

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Watch a high school founder grow a youth-led consulting firm and a business hackathon into a multi-year Berkeley partnership.

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