Our Time was born out of ‘get out the vote’ efforts here in the United states, but is expanding the efforts to represent and support the under 30 population year round. Young Female Entrepreneurs who are under 30 and live in the United States will find their Buy Young Initiative interesting in that it promotes companies where the CEO is under 30 in an effort to highlight the job creation potential these companies have.
The founder (above in 2009), Matthew Segal, was quoted in Portfolio as saying…
“Young people are often overlooked as a voting block, but they’re never overlooked as a consumer block,” says Segal. “My goal in creating Our Time and Buy Young was to work with the private and public sector to save young people money, to find them jobs, and to start conversations about topics that are important to young people today.” Read more…
Segal goes on to say that young people are able to vote with their wallets and hope that Buy Young will encourage them to vote for companies that are more likely to create jobs for the under thirty unemployed. Find out more about the Buy Young Initiate and last week’s Our Time event in Washington DC below.
