Alec Olander
Incoming serial entrepreneur. 20 y/o.
Some things I've done
- Made my own money through side hustles - reselling, door-to-door sales - from 9 to 13
- Won my school's presidential election as an underdog, with 700 kids voting, at 13
- Learned fluent German through self-studies, at 15
- Moved to Kenya and lived at a boarding school for 10 months, learning fluent Swahili through self-studies, at 17
- Started A2 Vintage, growing it to $600K in revenue, 15K followers, and 3 stores in the first year - becoming the fastest-growing vintage retail company in the Nordics, at 18
- Accepted into YEOS and Norrsken as their youngest member, at 19
- Accepted into SSE, the highest-ranking business school in the Nordics, but turned it down to continue building companies, at 20
- Got into The Bridge (Entrepreneur First accelerator, <4% acceptance rate) and dropped out of the program during the second week while being on the path to a $250K investment to find even better opportunities, at 20
- Now building the future of physical retail intelligence, based on two years of experience running my own retail company and experiencing the bottlenecks first-hand.
Side quests
- Pitched myself to Norwegian billionaire Petter Stordalen, at a non-business event and got his contact information - went viral on LinkedIn after posting about it, 5K likes, 300K views
- Went to Pakistan on my own for a month to research starting the first industrial-scale sustainable clothing brand, making clothes from used clothes, and pitched to Interloop founder Musadaq Zulqarnain, one of the largest textile manufacturers in the world
In the press
A few pictures
