Interview with Benjamin Wong
Meet Benjamin Wong, a fifteen year old serial entrepreneur who is the host of Young Trep podcast, the founder of Kid CEO Media, and co-founder of online entrepreneur education business Rich Kids Global.
Ben was inspired to help all kids build the ultimate entrepreneur lifestyle by providing them with the resources to thrive.
Wanting to learn more about his various projects, and what inspired his ideas, Kebloom contacted this amazing young entrepreneur!
1) Please introduce yourself.
Hey, I'm Ben Wong, the host of the Young Trep podcast and the CEO of Kids CEO Media. I am nearly 15 years old. I founded my idea for the Kids CEO podcast all the way back in 2018. My entire life I had been wanting to be an entrepreneur. I would sell things like foil swans even like foil bowls. I would pick avocados and other fruits and I'd sell them on the streets. Finally, I decided to take that money and put it into stocks and after some success i decided to create a podcast so that can I share my story with everyone else. I did a summit for the podcast which eventually led up into the Young Trep podcast which I run now and at Young Trep I interview some of our world's greatest experts and entrepreneurs to help all kids build the ultimate entrepreneur lifestyle.
2) Tell us a little bit about your business/initiative.
I’m currently part of three different types of projects. We have the Young Trep podcast and that's my free podcast that anyone can go listen to and I interview thought leaders, entrepreneurs and experts. It's all to help you all build the ultimate entrepreneur lifestyle. Moving over to Kid CEO. That's kind of my open arm to do whatever my heart desires, so I do things like events like good CEO Summit. I do communities on clubhouse and on facebook .Then you go over to Rich Kids Global . Rich Kids Global partnered with two teens in the UK and Australia and we put together programs that are amazing for kid entrepreneurs.
“A large population of our world is kids all of whom have the potential to create their own business via online influencer.”
3) What inspired your business idea?
When I started my podcast back in 2018 the original kids series podcast, a podcast for kids, especially podcasts by kids, were still super rare. Now there are a gazillion different podcasts for kids, even by kids. But back then, it was still a new thing. Podcasts were still relatively a new thing so I was really just trying to solve one problem for me which was instead of having to help 100 people or 100 of my friends set up their own stock accounts I could do it all by just recording myself and putting it out there as a podcast.
3) Who are your customers?
My customers are all young entrepreneurs. Whether they're experienced entrepreneurs, or whether they're brand new entrepreneurs ,or even if they're kids who want to be entrepreneurs. The problem here is that there are so many ambitious, curious kids but they're all kind of isolated and they're not often given the resources to thrive. I'm super lucky to grow up in a family with the resources where I can live up to my potential. I know a lot of other kids who don't have those same opportunities. I wanted to allow a relatively inexpensive, affordable way for all my customers, which are the entrepreneurs, to be able to help themselves and thrive.
“The problem here is that there are so many ambitious, curious kids, but they're all kind of isolated and they're not often given the resources to thrive.”
4) How do you manage your time?
I go to a homeschool charter school program so that really allows me to be able to make my own effective flexible schedule and be able to fully dictate my life. My biggest thing with time management is not making sure that I’m getting too much work done in a day, but making sure that I get enough work done, quality work done in a day, without sacrificing other parts of my life like social life, exercise, and most importantly, my own happiness and having fun. I think I've just done a pretty good job of setting time blocking and me setting good habits like going to sleep on time and waking up early.
5) What skills have you developed by running the business?
My biggest skill that I've learned from running my business definitely comes in the ability to talk to people, especially in interviews. I was a pretty shy kid I would consider myself a shy kid but I was really able to do the podcast able to force myself to go out of my comfort zone and talk to these people. The biggest part was that I loved doing it and I had my own motivation and this really helped me today build that skill of being able to hold a conversation and continue to be curious.
“The biggest advice I could give any young entrepreneur out there is to take opportunities and make opportunities.”
6) What are your current goals and what is your ultimate business goal?
My current goal is really just to be one of the biggest influencers in the realm of kid entrepreneurship. I think it's still a relatively new niche, but it's important because you know a large population of our world is kids all of whom have the potential to create their own business via online influencer . We just have to help people tap into their potential and that's what I want to be here for.
7) What advice would you give to other young entrepreneurs?
The biggest advice I could give any young entrepreneur out there is to take opportunities and make opportunities it's only a couple words but it's so so so important. Your entire success will be dictated off the opportunities that you take and the opportunities that you make yourself.
8) Anything else you’d like to add?
You can follow me on Instagram @officialbenjaminwong or you can visit my website benjaminwong.co.
Thank you Keboom for having me today and I hope you check me out.
About the Author:
Adelina Lalic is the co-founder of Kebloom! She has 20 plus years in the finance and business sector and a relentless passion for entrepreneurism. Adelina’s values align with inspiring a can-do attitude in the younger generation and providing young people with a launch pad to success.