Two sisters started selling home-baked bagels through Instagram, a gap-year student founded a tuition centre that now has a 75-student waitlist, and a singer got her first record deal by spamming people on LinkedIn – these young women tapped into the power of social media to live their dreams, all before turning 2
You are too young. These words from doubtful older adults became the voices in their heads that propelled four teen entrepreneurs, one as young as 14, to work harder and reach further.
They decided to bake their own matcha bagels. That first bake of their lives turned out to be a huge mess. “The bagels were totally out of shape. They didn’t even look like bagels,” laughed Kat, the younger of the two. “We didn’t know how to arrange for delivery or standardise a collection place and time, so we would go to MRT stations all over Singapore to deliver bagels,” she added.
“We put mochi in our bagels because mochi has a special meaning for us. There’s a mochi shop in our dad’s hometown in Taiwan that we love,” Kay said. “We have become more financially independent and don’t have to keep reaching out to our parents for money. We can even buy them secret Christmas presents,” Kay laughed.
Nonetheless, the straight-A student felt confident to guide her first student through the General Paper exam, a subject required for entry into university in Singapore. It consists of an essay paper and a comprehension paper, and covers diverse topics such as the arts, social sciences, the environment and technology.
In July 2022, seven months after she started giving private tuition, she founded the Classicle Club, a private tuition centre specialising in GP. Some students told her that their teachers take a long time to mark their essay, so she bridges the gap by marking all essays within 24 hours, no matter how many are submitted. Indeed, one determined student even submitted 19 essays within a month.
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