d'skills

CHIEF REBEL (aka FOUNDER) of d"Skills

Our speaker is Hannah Grady Williams. Hannah grew up in North Carolina and was the oldest of seven homeschooled children. She started college online through College+ when she was 14, meaning she graduated from high school and college with a degree in international business at the same time. Hannah notes that she primarily taught herself by roughly grades seven and eight, although she did have outside instructors for some subject areas. She shared with me that most of her “education” came from one subject: speech and debate, where, simply by preparing for frequent competitions, she learned research, public speaking, communication, teamwork, efficiency, history, public policy, and even science. Hannah’s journey towards founding a company called d’Skills began in a blue pickup truck when her father handed her, at age 12, the phone so that she could close a deal on a piece of real estate. Now, as a 25-year-old Native Digital, Hannah is Chief Rebel at and founder of d’Skills, a VC-backed start-up shifting students from test prep to life prep. It’s a hub, perhaps, where motivated teens learn new digital skills and convert them into real-world projects, helping them leave high school with more experience and connections than most college graduates!