Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Why Entrepreneurs Should Bring Their Kids Into the Business World

7 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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First-person account (Cameron Herold) about growing up with an entrepreneurial father and being brought to his office and business events. At 17 he skipped a week of high school to attend the Traffic and Conversion Summit with his dad, which exposed him to mentors, internships, and networks that set him up professionally by the time his peers graduated. The speaker advocates for involving children in parts of the business world to provide skills, resources, mentors, and early advantages.

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Skipped a whole week of high school to attend the Traffic and Conversion Summit.

17 of the 18 years.

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For me as a kid. I grew up with a dad who was an entrepreneur for 17 of the 18 years. Growing up in the house of an entrepreneur, you just experience life differently. My dad did a really great job of bringing us to the office. And then when I was 17, I was always very entrepreneurial. Had a business pretty much for as long as I can remember. And he brought me, let me skip a week of school, took me to traffic and conversion summit with him when I was 17, skipped a whole week of high school. I thought it was awesome. It was the first time that I. I was like, wow, I am not, like, the only person that's interested in business. Look at all these other people who are doing cool things. And that's when I started meeting mentors. So many of those first, like, one or two events that I went to were the complete foundation for the connections and the jobs that I got. Internships that led me to. By the time my friends were graduating college, I was really well set up for the rest of my life with skills and resources. I really believe that involving your kids in some of those pieces is just really, really supportive.