Workshop Topic: How to prepare for the freelance (GIG) economy? Acquiring a growth mindset.

Danie Jacobs is the Founder and CEO of Young Entrepreneurs and the Young Entrepreneurs Foundation. Young Entrepreneurs teaches children and young adults vital entrepreneurial, financial literacy, employability, and workplace readiness skills and help them start and grow their own micro-enterprises in a fun and experiential way. He started his first business at the age of 5 selling his water paint depictions of life. In his own words: “Yeah right! They were awful drawings of trees, skewed houses, deformed stick people, with the traditional version of clouds and a smiling sun”. He sold them for 10 cents each (in 1978) and although the quality was sub-standard, no-one could resist a cute and friendly little boy.