Future of Business - From Gen Z to CEO: Youth Entrepreneurship in 2030

14 March 2030
Dear Diary, I can’t stop thinking about how different the world feels now. It’s like the adults finally moved over and handed Gen Z and Gen Alpha the steering wheel, even though we’re still figuring out how to drive. Today in class, our teacher said that more teenagers are running businesses than ever before. I swear, it felt like she was talking directly to me, like I was supposed to do something big with that information.
Everywhere I look, young people are building their own companies. It’s almost normal now to see a 16-year-old running a sneaker brand from their bedroom or a 13-year-old coding an app that goes viral overnight. It’s wild how our generation doesn’t wait to “grow up” to work. We just start. It’s like we’re all carrying little sparks in our pockets, and the world keeps handing us matches. Technology became our playground. AI assistants feel like group project partners who actually help. Online markets let teenagers sell products without needing a giant office or a suit that feels like cardboard. And social media? That’s our billboard, advertising ideas faster than we can even think them.
But here’s the funny part: even with all this freedom, the pressure feels huge sometimes. Like, what if I have ideas but they’re not good enough? What if everyone else becomes a CEO before I even figure out what business I want to start? Still, a tiny part of me (the part that never shuts up) keeps whispering, “Why not you?”
So maybe in 2030, business isn’t just for adults anymore. It’s for anyone brave enough to try. Even an eighth grader sitting at their desk, writing in a diary, imagining a future where their doodles turn into logos and their dreams turn into companies.

Emaan Murtaza Khan - MYP 3 - Learning Alliance International