04/13/2023

Gen Z Pushes Back on Stereotype of Being Lazy, Unmotivated

It's not easy being both young and ambitious

Being young and ambitious right now often means proving that you can be both of those things at the same time.

That applies even to 25-year-old Charu Thomas, who earned an engineering degree in 3½ years after completing high school in three years. She founded supply-chain software firm Ox at age 18, raised $3.5 million in funding and, in 2020, made it onto Forbes' 30 Under 30 list.

Yet in a breakfast with investors in the fall, she said they wanted to discuss "quiet quitting" and younger entrepreneurs' motivations.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Wall Street Journal.