I'm 13 year old and I'm from Hong Kong.

MinorMynas is a global kids community,

where we provide a real-life learning experience for us to chat and learn from each other.

And now we have more than 5,000 downloads in roughly 50 countries.

The idea first came around when I went to learn some Mandarin.

I was in a place where we saw people from all over the world

It was then I thought about the language, the language aspect.

I personally came up with the idea,

and then we found a tech company to help us build the code.

The app itself took 6 months to complete from September of 2016,

and we launched the app last year in May.

The heart of MinorMynas is in the group chats.

For example, in the riddle group, we just ask riddles,

In the nature group, we're talking about all the things we see in our daily lives

These groups are in a lot of different languages.

They are really active in teaching.

Right now, we are an incredibly small team.

Honestly, it's my entire family.

During the process, I was pretty hands on.

We were having pretty regular meetings with the tech guys, where we would talk about the progress of the app.

But once I saw the interaction between the kids on our APP

I realized that there was so much more than just languages.

I believe that the best way to connect societies and different people is through kids,

'cause since we're still young, we're still very open-minded.

The only thing that sets me apart from other 13 or 14-year-olds

is that I know absolutely nothing about celebrities,

I'm not very into boys.

My parents are really open-minded.

Since I was really really young, they were reading a lot of books to me

and trying to raise me to be as creative and critical as possible.

If I want to make a decision like, when I left school...

At the time I was being bullied really badly at school,

we had a lot of conversations about it.

Suddenly she had bad dreams at night

And couldn't sleep well

Then she told us,

other kids like talking about stars, makeup, boys and girls, etc.

But Hilary is different. She doesn't like that stuff.

She likes reading and talks about some deep topics.

Other children can't understand her at all.

She was the last one to leave the middle school every day,

because she hided in the restroom to avoid seeing others.

Finally I found her pulling her own hair,

and I told my husband "We're definitely taking her out."

She can choose what to learn according to her own level when she studies at home.

She and her younger brother often felt it was slow in school.

So I decided to also bring him out and make them study together.

When she's busy doing her things, she's happy,

back to the girl she used to be.

Predominantly I have two hobbies.

One is reading. I spend as much time possible reading as I can.

I sneakily read after bed time.

Sorry mommy.

So this book is called The Everything Store,

and it's about Amazon and Jeff Bezos as an entrepreneur.

This is one book that really stuck for me,

and it tells me a lot of strategies.

The way Jeff Bezos handles his employees and the way he communicates with other people.

Debating is another one of my favorite things to do,

because debating lets you have analytical look on everything in the world.

So I've got quite a few mentors and entrepreneurs which I meet.

Sometimes they can go twice every two weeks, or once a week.

I tend to be the youngest person there.

One is in biotech, another one is working on accelerators.

The best thing about being a CEO

is that you make the final choice.

But I say that drawback is exactly the same,

the consequences of the choice will be all on you.

If you ask me whether this question one year ago,

I'd say that I would definitely go to university in this particular country.

But now, which I'm still proud about,

University preps you for the real world,

and walks you out to the real world,

which I think I'm already doing now with MinorMynas.

College, if you go and look at the vast majority,

They just want ordinary jobs and live very ordinary lives.