This is an excerpt from MEGA's April 2025 issue's New Voices feature What is remarkable about Amanda Cua is not that she is just 21 years old and she's already a CEO and founder of a startup newsletter called BackScoop—although it is a remarkable feat in itself; but it's how she has the self-assurance and confidence of a seasoned executive, the most informed person in the room and the one who makes all the calls. That’s because, in a way, she is. Amanda founded BackScoop a year out of high school, all by herself, in the middle of the pandemic, and from scratch. As a self-confessed nerd who loves studying, she chose to take a gap year to work instead of going to college online. She learned all that she could about startups from a year-long stint working in one, reading all the articles related to the industry, and meeting […]
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