recruits and trains top college graduates from

around the U.S.

who want to learn how to build a business.

So they work in an early-stage company with an

existing entrepreneur in Detroit, New Orleans,

Baltimore, Cleveland, other U.S.

cities that could use a boost.

They work there for two years to help that business

expand and grow and also train themselves as

entrepreneurs.

The goal is that they'll become a manager or leader

at that company or they'll start their own company

after the two-year fellowship.

What we see is that when they work in these

early-stage companies and startups, they really become

a different sort of person -- the kind of person that

understand how to build a business and then

understands those challenges and what it takes to take on

the same challenge if they start a company.

2012 fellow, Brian Rudolph , moved to Detroit, works at

an e-commerce company there funded by Dan Gilbert , and

then while he's there, you know, there aren't great

food supplies there and he's gluten-free, so he makes

himself a pasta out of chickpeas in his kitchen in

Detroit and it's pretty terrible, but he keeps going

and does it over and over again and fast forward to

today -- his business, Banza, which is a chickpea

gluten-free pasta company, has raised a million dollars

and employees 15 people.

And the pasta's delicious.

It's being distributed in hundreds of stores around

the country.

And that's someone who graduated from college less

than three years ago now?

So that's what our young people are capable of if you

put them in a position to have mentors and support and

role models.

Well, certainly, it's part of the history of this

country where the people that came to the U.S.

were doing something very entrepreneurial.

Often, they had to build new lives for themselves -- new

homes, new businesses.

They would migrate West to unspoiled territory and then

explore it and settle.

I think that that's what really people want to

preserve and sustain, which is that spirit of enterprise

that's made this country great for its entire history.