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Ben Nelson

Ben Nelson
Ben Nelson

Age: 39

Founder of San Francisco’s Minerva Project, which is reinventing the liberal arts education and matriculated its first students in fall 2014.

Why so successful?
“My parents brought me up to analyze the world around me from first principles and not take conventional wisdom as a given. Outside of sheer luck (of which there was plenty), nearly every positive event in my career can be traced to that upbringing.”

Favorite professional moment in the past year?
“The first day of orientation when I got to meet all of our Founding Class students. To have 20 years of work become a reality in an instant was simply magical.”

The Wharton #40Under40

Cover of the Fall Winter 2023 issue of Wharton Magazine, featuring two soccer players colliding in a midair jump, as well as a spread of the magazine with an image of a soccer pitch on it.
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