Neal Sales-Griffin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Neal Sales-Griffin
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Jul 28, 1987(1987-07-28)
Age	37
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Leo

Neal Sales-Griffin Biography

Neal Sales-Griffin is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on July 28, 1987 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. A proponent of education, he serves as the CEO of The Starter League and teaches people how to design, code, and ship web apps that solve problems they care about. When not teaching, he works on Lantern, an app that helps engage students better while also helping teachers save time.

He serves as both an entrepreneur and teacher as Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen did.

Sales-Griffin grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the Kenwood neighborhood at East 49th Street and South Drexel Boulevard. Sales-Griffin’s father is African-American. His mother is of Honduran, Filipino, and Mexican descent. Sales-Griffin comes from a low-income background. He attended St. Thomas the Apostle School in Hyde Park and Mount Carmel High School in Woodlawn. He was on the track team and played cornerback on the football team at Mount Carmel. He had an opportunity to participate in the Junior Olympics, although he did not attend due to a serious back injury. He also was an avid and competitive chess player, winning 6th place at National K-12 Championships in 1998.

In 2011, Sales-Griffin and McGee launched Code Academy, the first ever coding bootcamp, offering three-month intensive courses in web development and design. In 2012, Code Academy changed its name to The Starter League to eliminate confusion with a competing New York-based program called Codecademy. It was one of the first tenants of 1871, Chicago’s center for technology and entrepreneurship. They partnered with Chicago Public Schools to help bring code education to the classroom. The program also took an undisclosed investment from Chicago software company Basecamp (formerly known as 37signals). In 2016, New York-based coding bootcamp Fullstack Academy acquired The Starter League.

He was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Neal Sales-Griffin Net Worth

Neal Sales-Griffin is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Neal Sales- Griffin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He strives to live in a world where everyone can choose to do meaningful work they love everyday.

He started work on a newer project called Starter School, a grad-school program that teaches the design, programming, and business skills to ship a product in 9 months.

Neal Sáles-Griffin (born July 28, 1987) is a Chicago entrepreneur, educator, and aspiring politician. He co-founded the first coding bootcamp program in 2011 and is the CEO of CodeNow, a nonprofit that teaches coding to low-income high school students. He was a candidate for mayor of Chicago in 2019.

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Sales-Griffin is an adjunct member of the faculty at the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering. He also teaches coding at Dyett High School, which is located near where he grew up. He serves on the boards of Mount Carmel, his alma mater, and the Chiaravalle Montessori school in Evanston, Illinois. He is the co-chair of the MakeWork Council at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Neal Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Neal Sales-Griffin celebrates birthday on July 28 of every year.

Sales-Griffin attended Northwestern University, where he majored in Learning and Organizational Change. He soon became involved in several entrepreneurial endeavors during his college career. He helped start ContextMedia (now known as Outcome Health), a healthcare technology company which provides digital health information to patients. He also managed a barbershop with two locations on Chicago’s South Side, and was a teaching assistant for an entrepreneurship class at the school’s Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions. He interned for 3 months at UBS Bank, making more money in 3 months than his mother made in one year. Sales-Griffin volunteered at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship as a mentor, coach, and judge to motivate kids from where he grew up to start their own businesses and solve meaningful problems for themselves. Sales-Griffin served as student body president his senior year, and graduated from Northwestern in 2009 with a degree in education and social policy.