Alex Osola

Thanks so much, Lauren.

Thank you.

Starting a business takes dedication.

It often takes late nights and early mornings.

Some founders have had to juggle the challenges of a startup with going to high school.

While teenage founders aren't totally new, after all, Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft when he was 19, some of today's entrepreneurs are getting a particularly early start.

WSJ reporter Katie Binley spoke to these young founders and told our Tech News Briefing podcast about how AI is helping to fast-track their ambitions.

For investors, backing a company with a teenage founder can come with its own challenges.

Katie says that after a general partner at Google Ventures met with a team of young founders, he had some doubts.

To hear more from Katie, check out yesterday's episode of Tech News Briefing.

And that's what's news for this Wednesday.

Today's episode was produced by Daniel Bach and Hattie Moyer with supervising producer Tali Arbell.

I'm Alex Osola for The Wall Street Journal.

Heads up that we're off tomorrow for Christmas.

After that, we'll be publishing just one show a day through January 2nd.

And we'll be back with a new episode on Friday.

Thanks for listening.

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