🔧 The Double-Decker Go-Kart That Accidentally Built an Entrepreneur
About this episode
Laurie Stach shares her journey from building go-karts to founding a youth entrepreneurship program.
What happens when a childhood obsession with building things collides with MIT engineering, BMW design innovation, Harvard Business School, and a mission to shape the next generation of entrepreneurs? You get Laurie Stach. In this episode of Inventive Journey, Laurie shares the unconventional path that led her from building dangerous double-decker go-karts in the backyard to founding LaunchX — one of the most recognized youth entrepreneurship programs helping young founders build real startups and entrepreneurial confidence. Laurie opens up about growing up feeling like she never fully fit into one category. She loved engineering, creativity, athletics, experimentation, and problem-solving all at once. That blend of interests eventually led her to MIT, where she discovered an environment filled with builders, inventors, and curious minds who approached the world differently. At MIT, Laurie immersed herself in machine shops and rapid prototyping culture. She worked at the MIT Media Lab building experimental technologies and learning firsthand how quickly ideas could move from imagination to physical reality. That love for prototyping later carried into her work at GE and BMW…
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