Bryce Bjork is no stranger to the entrepreneurial world.
As a teenager in 2014, the then-Concord-Carlisle Regional High School sophomore wanted to find a better way to connect laborers and employers to maximize income for the former while minimizing cost for the latter. And so he created LaborLion, a website built to connect job-seeking high school students with the homeowners who needed odd jobs completed.
Six years later, he’s a Yale graduate with a new website – hireastudent.com – connecting high school students from Concord-Carlisle and homeowners who need help.
“At Yale, I started doing a little more app development and built the first version of hireastudent as an app,” said Bjork, who graduated with an economics degree. “It had some bugs. But despite the bugs, tons of students were downloading it.”
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