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The Luso-American Stacey Ferreira, 23, is on the magazine’s list Forbes 30 promising young people under 30 years in the area of ​​trade and retail, included in the edition of January.

“Ferreira dropped out of university to accept a Thiel Exchange. She is the author of a book on entrepreneurs millennial and founder of Forrge, a tool that allows join jobs with high demand with workers” writes the magazine Ferreira.

Forbes adds that the Forrge “is not the first adventure [Ferreira] in start-up having already sold to Reputation.com business that began in the secondary, the MySocialCloud. “

In an interview with Portuguese-American newspaper, Newark, Stacey Ferreira explained his Portuguese origins.

“My paternal grandparents, Joseph and Rosa Ferreira, born in Portugal. My grandmother in Murtosa and my grandfather in Lousã. My grandmother emigrated to the US 15 years and my grandfather with 10. They met at the Club Portuguese Union of Naugatuck, Connecticut, “said the girl.

The grandparents worked in a factory of typewriters, Uniroyal, like many other Portuguese, and still live in Connecticut, despite spending holidays all year in Portugal.

Stacey Ferreira also lived in Connecticut when, after graduating from high school, she decided to create her brother, Scott Ferreira, a management company and storage of passwords called “MySocialCloud”.

Two years later, the entrepreneur Richard Branson would eventually discover the company through an initiative on the social network Twitter and invested one million euros in “MySocialCloud.”

Stacey Ferreira and brother then developed the company in Los Angeles, which would eventually sell in 2013, and Stacey entered the university in New York.

It would end up quitting a year later, however, to accept a scholarship and engage in the creating a new project online, the Forrge

Author of 2 Billion Under 20:. How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World , the young man gave more than 100 lectures and conferences in recent years to talk about young and new technology enterprise.

Stacey has been featured in the magazine Seventeen , which put her on the cover, he joined the list of “Most well successful college dropouts “, the Business Insider , while the web portal The Jane Dough considered one of the” 30 entrepreneurs to follow carefully “.