About this episode

The episode features 17-year-old Hamish Sutherland, who shares his journey of starting multiple businesses at a young age and discusses opportunities for young entrepreneurs.

There’s nothing quite like starting young. But most of us don’t build a business before we can vote. Never mind several of them. Hamish Sutherland is 17 and already on his fourth business. He felt the spark to get ahead early on but turns out it’s hard to get a job when you’re eight. Rather than let a tricky thing like employment law hold him back, he just started his own business instead. By 13, that was a lawn mowing and water blasting business. At 15, he wrote a Kindle book that made $60,000. Then he moved into a property investment project. Now he’s building AI-focused businesses, fresh off an entrepreneurship intensive in Malaysia. The world of work is changing fast, and it’s easy to freeze when you’re not sure where you fit into that change. Hamish isn’t freezing. He’s looking for the opportunity in it. In this podcast we talk about: • How to start a business as a teenager with no money or experience • Making money on Kindle direct publishing, and how his book made $60,000 • Investing in property young • AI business ideas for 2026, and where he’s focusing next • Using social media to grow a business as a young entrepreneur • Gen Z entrepreneurship, and why young people are…

People in this episode

Host: Frances Cook

Guest: Hamish Sutherland

Topics covered

• teen entrepreneurship
• business development
• property investment
• AI business ideas
• Kindle publishing
• Gen Z entrepreneurship

Keywords

• teen entrepreneur
• business
• Kindle book
• property investment
• AI
• social media
• Gen Z

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