A conversation with Cory Levy
Entrepreneurial advice on finding your passion early, from the founder who cold-DM'd his way into VC before graduating college.
Written for Axiom Pathways.
A conversation with Cory Levy, who parlayed a single tweet at investor Keith Rabois into internships at top VC firms, raised his first million by 19, and co-built a 20-million-user teen social app before exiting in 2021 — he now runs Z Fellows, an accelerator that bets heavily on teenage founders. The piece centers on his advice for a high schooler starting today: find what you like, identify the best person in the world at it, and get as close to them as possible to learn by proximity, a framework he traces to Robert Greene’s Mastery. Levy also reflects on using that exact playbook himself in high school, and on why the advantage of being young and hungry enough that people say yes to you doesn’t last forever.