Sophie Defauw | LinkedIn
A TL:DR about me, in a timeline: - At 13 started university - At 14 I joined the Mexican national windsurfing team, becoming national champion - At 15 won national art competitions - At 16 I did a TEDx talk about education - At 17 I achieved Top 5 ranking in North America and Top 50 worldwide (for windsurfing) - At 19 won several international hackathons including the Vodafone hack - At 20 won Elon Musk's Not-a-Boring competition building a 22-tons tunnel boring machine - At 21 founded my first company, and scale it to retail in 19 countries - At 22 received a professor title from the University of Salamanca, and been guest lecturer at universities in America, Europe and Asia, including UC Berkeley, on Design Thinking & Sports Tech - At 23 I took part of Entrepreneur First / Founders inc cohorts, founded my startup developing wearables for preventing injuries in athletes - At 24 became a Sigma squared / Eurotech / the modern renassance fellow, published my first book In