It’s just a beautiful story: a 9-year-old creates a homemade arcade out of cardboard and invites the world to come play with him. Filmmaker Nirvan Mullick was thoroughly transfixed when he stumbled upon young entrepreneur Caine Monroy’s arcade, located in his father’s auto parts store, and made a short documentary about it. Mullick’s initial goal was to raise a $25,000 scholarship fund for Monroy.
Caine is now 10 and, in November, appeared at TEDxYouth@SantaMonica alongside Mullick. There Mullick revealed that his doc, Caine’s Arcade, got a million views and raised $60K on the very first day it was posted. In the Q&A above, the pair share how they decided to help other kids with the vast sums they were receiving by launching the Imagination Foundation. Their idea is to find, foster and fund creative entrepreneurship in kids through initiatives like the Cardboard Challenge.
In an amazing moment in the video above, Monroy shares the five rules he’s learned from his journey. Number 2: “Do a business that is fun.” And Number 5: “Use recycled stuff.”
































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Only a matter of minutes ago I scanned in a Sunday Telegraph magazine article about Caine’s Arcade (dated June 2012), and now to of seen this and witnessed how much it has snowballed is truly inspiring. Caine clearly has what it takes to become one of great entrepreneurial minds of our time, especially after hearing his list at the end. #3 ‘Start with what you have’, is probably one thing I kind of take for granted, it’s certainly made me question just how many new materials I buy for a new project or brief; and that I should be looking closer to home before I go off buying a shiny one of those or a snazzy bit of that. Working simply with cardboard and some sticky tape it just goes to show anyone can achieve success if they think rationally.
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