Kitchener-Waterloo Area and University of Waterloo

successful business: He is 24 years old, according to The Toronto Star. Liu is among a small but growing number of young adults in the Kitchener-Waterloo area who are redefining what it takes to create a successful business. The co-founder and CEO of Mapped In, a multimillion-dollar company that crafts touch-screen directories for shopping malls and retail stores, is a University of Waterloo dropout who oversees a staff of 26. They’ve abandoned their studies in order to launch startups in this cauldron of tech ingenuity. There even a lucrative program for these dropouts. It could be argued they epitomize the entrepreneurial spirit, skipping classes to get in the game instead, following in the footsteps of industry icons such as Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.

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