{"id":109094,"date":"2026-07-29T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/i-dropped-out-of-college-at-19-to-build-a-3-billion-business-helping-independent-brands-compete-with-amazon-prime\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:27:26","slug":"i-dropped-out-of-college-at-19-to-build-a-3-billion-business-helping-independent-brands-compete-with-amazon-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/i-dropped-out-of-college-at-19-to-build-a-3-billion-business-helping-independent-brands-compete-with-amazon-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"I Dropped Out of College at 19 to Build a $3 Billion Business Helping Independent Brands Compete With Amazon Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways<br \/>\nHenry co-founded Stord when he was an 18-year-old college student at Georgia Tech. He dropped out at 19 to focus on the company, which hit a $3 billion valuation earli\u2026 [+8429 chars]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/building-a-business\/i-dropped-out-of-college-at-19-to-build-a-3-billion-business-competing-with-amazon-prime-stord\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways Henry co-founded Stord when he was an 18-year-old college student at Georgia Tech. He dropped out at 19 to focus on the company, which hit a $3 billion valuation earli\u2026 [+8429 chars]read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":["1"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}