This remarkable young Croat plays this ”role” so well that he is also the winner of the Inspire 2030 Award for the Most Influential Young Entrepreneur Under 30.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 10th of February, 2020, Nikola Zec is just nineteen years old, a second-year student at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Rijeka, and he already owns three companies.
Although it sounds incredible, especially for Croatia, for this young Croat, life in which he plays the roles of both student and business man is a common daily routine. Moreover, Nikola Zec has two years of entrepreneurial experience behind him, since he started his first company back in high school, and it also brought him the status of one of the largest importers of snacks in the Balkans.
According to Glas Istre, he is also the winner of the Inspire 2030 award for the most influential young entrepreneur under the age of 30, which, Nikola says, is just one of several awards he has won so far.
”I’m a student of Business Economics at the Faculty of Economics in Rijeka, the director and founder of startups WorldFood Box and Gooders News and the entrepreneurial consulting agency Nikola Zec Business. The first company I started was WorldFood Box back in high school and we’re currently the biggest importers of foreign food, namely sweets and snacks on the Balkan market.
In addition to the WorldFood Box, I’m currently working on launching the first positive news outlet in Croatia called Gooders News, with which I want to change the way the media communicates with the public. Gooders News began its preparations and work back in May last year, and we first introduced ourselves to the public in early October with the aim of spreading positive news and promoting positivity through humorous content. Through Gooders News, I want to inform the public about the importance of positive thinking and maintaining good mental health,” said Nikola.
The move, this talented young Croat added, was decided by the devastating results of a World Health Organisation survey that listed depression the world’s second biggest health problem. After conducting his own market research, he came to the conclusion that the constant pressure of negative news has a markedly negative impact on the mental health of readers, writes Glas Istre.
”Our goal is not to manipulate content for the sake of creating a false sense of positivity, but our goal is to change the everyday life and mindset of the Croatian public with quality entertaining, humorous and positive content.
In addition, we believe that negative news media is still extremely important in order to encourage a change in the definition of the media, but we believe that there must be positive content in the sea of negative news that will create a certain balance.
Our wish is to move away from the classic media communication with the public and to bring to the Croatian market a business model that is already recognised in a similar, video form in the rest of the world. They want to grow their business without controversial articles and provide their readers with humorous and informative content in a completely different form than is already known,” explained Nikola Zec.
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