Tom Szaky

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Tom Szaky is the founder of TerraCycle, a New Jersey based company that makes fertilizer using worms. The firm was started while he was a student at Princeton University, from which he has since dropped out.[1] Tom was named “The #1 CEO Under Thirty” by Inc. magazine in its July 2006 issue, beating out Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.[2]

Szaky was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1982, and moved to Canada in 1989. He started Flyte Design, a web-design firm with three employees, at age 14, earning a number of Canadian national design awards.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Strauss, Robert. "But the Employees Are Really Spineless", The New York Times, April 10, 2005. Accessed October 25, 2007.
  2. ^ Burlingham, Bo. "The Coolest Little Start-Up in America", Inc. (magazine), July 2006. Accessed October 25, 2007.
  3. ^ Tom Skazy: Chief Executive Officer, TerraCycle. Accessed October 25, 2007.

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