Jonathan is a student at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, where he is a mathematics major and entrepreneurship and social enterprise minor. Embracing entrepreneurship, Jonathan founded his first company, Delightfully Daisy, LLC, in 2005 while he was in middle school. Still operating today, Delightfully Daisy is a manufacturer of pet products located in Taylorsville, NC. Jonathan is currently developing The Rural Entrepreneurship Lab, an exploratory research initiative for the academic study of rural entrepreneurship. As an academic entrepreneur, Jonathan studies rural entrepreneurial behavior with a theoretical focus around creativity.

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