Cory Levy (born October 10, 1991, in Houston) is the founder of FirstText.com and ZFellows.com. Z Fellows is a fellowship that offers you $10,000 to stop what you're doing for a week to work on a side project alongside mentors ranging from the Founder of Tinder to Netflix. He formerly co-founded and was the COO of ONE, Inc., creators of the After School App, an anonymous

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for high school students. He is also the founder of Internapalooza, a one-day tech conference for

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interns. At the age of 19, Cory raised $1M in

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from SV Angel, True Ventures,

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and Michael Dearing to start ONE, Inc. Prior to leaving the University of Illinois to launch ONE, Inc., where he was studying computer science, with co-founder Michael Callahan, Cory held

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s at TechStars,

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, and

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. Cory was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 for Consumer Technology and Dorm Room Founders in 2017. He is also the board member of DoSomething.org

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