When Jordan Hollander started business school in September 2015, becoming an entrepreneur wasn’t part of his long-term plan. “I probably would have said, ‘You shouldn’t go to business school if you want to be an entrepreneur,'” he says. Instead, given his interest in extreme sports, he saw himself working in marketing at a big company like Red Bull.
That plan changed shortly after graduating from Northwestern University. Kellogg School of Management began. Hollander joined the Zell Fellows, a program for students who want to start or acquire their own business. The scholarship allowed him to travel to Israel to meet other graduate students, provided him with non-equity grants (a form of financing that does not require giving up equity in the company), and helped him to develop the confidence he needed to pursue his own business dream. . Hollander is now the chairman and CEO of Hotel technical report, a platform that allows hoteliers to search for software providers. He co-founded the company in 2017.
