Those who are already old will remember that acronym that spoke of Young Although Exceedingly Prepared (JASP), so hackneyed in the nineties to refer to a generation that was loaded with reasons to face new challenges. Now, the terms used to talk about these same profiles are different -mileuristas, for example-, but the melody is the same: young and highly educated people.
The 30 Under 30 Europe list that Forbes magazine publishes and that this last month of May incorporated the names of Valencian entrepreneurs such as Fran Villalba. Founder of Internext Drive, a company dedicated to file storage in the cloud that grew exponentially with the pandemic, last January he was already in the news in this newspaper because Juan Roig, through Angels, invested 250,000 euros in his startup, the "Google Valencian Drive".
Now the Forbes list brings together his name along with that of other entrepreneurs in the territory, such as Pep Gómez, founder of Fever
"Being in Forbes is recognition for everything we do. Somehow being there validates that what you're doing makes sense, it's not just that we grow, but externally it validates what you do"; explains Villalba, who tells a year later that the interview in this newspaper gave him "a lot of visibility and made us get many clients".
María Tatay sees it as "support, even if it is social, because a large company that looks for us on the Internet, if they see that we have appeared in Forbes, they dare more," she says. She uses the verb to dare because her business proposal is based on gamification applied to the company.
Prisma, the startup that he founded with Jaime Grau and Edgar Gámez, also in their thirties, develops software applying gamification in corporate processes, especially related to talent.
Forbes says of all of them that "they are brilliant" and places them as references for the generations that come after them, but also for those that precede them. He talks about José Burgos, 29 years old and CEO and founder of Fresh People, a consulting firm specialized in managing and transforming teams and with its own software for personnel management, which recently entered the Valencian accelerator Lanzadera.
Also from Pep Gómez, the founder of Fever, the platform for leisure alternatives in different cities, depending on the interests of the user, whose valuation has reached 1,000 million dollars in 2022, thanks to a recent round of investment. Born in Castellón, Gómez is 29 years old and has a long list of successes behind him, such as having also been the founder and president of Reby, a company that designs electric vehicles for shared use and is already a leader in southern Europe.
Roberto Mohedano, CEO and co-founder of Timpers, a startup from Alicante created by students from the University of Alicante that, for example, provided shoes for the Spanish Paralympic athletes in Tokyo 2021, will also take part in this Friday's event.
In addition to Mohedano, Timpers was created by the students Aitor Carratalá, from Architecture, and Diego Soliveres, from Law, all from the UA, as a brand of shoes designed by people with visual disabilities that aims to "break stereotypes that place people with disability away from the world of fashion and design". I said, young, prepared and brave.
