Aaron G. Golbin
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Aaron Gabriel Golbin (born September 4, 2003) is an American entrepreneur, businessman, publisher, writer, and investor. Golbin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of technology and media company The American Post, multinational Technology company DebateIsland.com and LostCry.com, and is the Strategy Lead of nonprofit organization POWAN Initiative.[1] He also founded and served as the CEO of Kings Corporation and BestDealWins.com.[2] He is a winner of a Certificate of Merit from the New York State Assembly and his written work has been featured in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, BusinessBlurb, AsianBlurb, and LinkedIn[3][4]. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Business Review.
Early life and education
Golbin was born in Brooklyn, New York and mainly grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. He attended P.S. 206 Joseph F. Lamb Elementary School from Kindergarten to grade 5, and then attended I.S. 234 Arthur W. Cunningham Middle School during grades 6 and 7.[5] Following his family's move to Long Island, New York, Golbin attended Merrick Avenue Middle School and high school, graduating in June, 2021.[6] Golbin currently attends The George Washington University, where he studies business, technology, and entrepreneurship, and resides in Washington, D.C.
Business Career
Early Business Career
In 2013, at the age of 8, Aaron Golbin founded his first business: Kings Corporation, a venture that provided indoor and outdoor entertainment to elementary school students during their lunch period.[7] As its CEO, Golbin expanded the venture to a 50-volunteer business used by a large number of children in his school.[8] In 2014, after the end of 5th grade, he began to learn numerous programming languages, primarily through free online websites, and continued to learn about business through courses and books.[9]
DebateIsland.com
On April 30, 2016, at the age of 12, Golbin founded DebateIsland.com.
BestDealWins.com and LostCry.com
On January 12, 2017, Aaron Golbin founded BestDealWins.com,[8] an online platform. It enabled users to create "deal challenges" which would contain deals and YMMV[10] (Your Mileage May Vary) deals posted by competing users who aimed to have the best deal in order to win the challenge. Golbin served as its CEO until late 2020, when the venture was shut down.
On October 1, 2017, Golbin founded LostCry.com,[7] a technology company that allows for the sharing of ancestors’ stories of hardship from events such as the Holocaust, Wars, Genocides, and Immigration. Golbin dedicated the website to his great grandmother, Tsilya Gershman Zaslavsky , a holocaust survivor. Aaron Golbin currently holds the position of CEO at LostCry. Golbin's essay about Tsilya's Holocaust experience, The Story of My Great Grandmother, is now in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's collection, where it was first indexed in early 2019.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag His work has been featured in many places including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, BusinessBlurb, AsianBlurb, and LinkedIn.[11]
Recognition
Forbes "More Teenage Brilliance: Two Different Startups" (2020)[7]
Bold TV "This Gen Z Entrepreneur Created A Civil Debate Platform" (2021)[12]
Inc. "9 Kid CEOs Teach Us One Critical Thing About What It Takes To Be A Successful Entrepreneur" (2017)[13]
Kidpreneurs "Interview with Aaron Golbin, Founder of DebateIsland.com" (2018)[14]
Teenager Startups "Aaron Golbin's DebateIsland" (2020)[8]
BQ Magazine "More Teenage Brilliance: Two Different Startups" (2020)[15]
Forbes "Lessons In Setting Up A Business From A Teenage Online Entrepreneur" (2018)[16]
References
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