City Year

The average age of the founders of those five organizations were 25 when they started.

Um, City Year, KIP, Kiva, Teach For America, the average age of their founders was 22 and a half when they started.

Young people drive change.

So we interviewed 20,000 young change-makers all over the world and asked them one question: Why? What I'll tell you I think you know instinctively, right? Young people are close to problems.

So if we think about Rivet as this capital ladder, right, where we start with $500, 5,000, um, the level of risk and investment in each step shifts as the young person gets clear about what they wanna solve.

It's the same thing on the social capital.

Um, so we have an incredible network of on-the-ground partners from the Red Cross to the Ys to the Scouts to City Year.

They are the folks who help us find young people.

a great start of a life, you know, of a business life, you know, to spend a year in an organization like that.

City Year in New York, you know, I've had many...

Teach for America.

Teach for America.

I went to a boarding school up in Massachusetts.

And then I'd say a formative experience after that was I did a program called City Year, early AmeriCorps program, in City Year's first year ever.

It was, like, their first full year corps.

So I then went to Amherst College, you know, back into the private school world.

Child of a single mom who had him when she was a teenager.

All of the demographics that made it somewhat surprising that he was at Amherst College.

And I'd just come from City Year, where I'd spent a year working in the inner city.

You're working with a lot of kids like Hector, and I sort of became a little obsessed with him as to, like, how did, how did this story happen? And the story happened because every year a handful of teachers at his school would just sort of pick out a handful of kids and be like, "We're gonna shepherd you through this, you know, visit colleges with you, help you get scholarships." And that's how it happened.

That was really common in my scholarship cohort.

Lots of Teach for America, City Year.

I did something else for two years or I got a master's degree and then I went to law school.

So at 21, I was the youngest person in my class, I'm pretty sure, or at least in my class.