Eight Houstonians on Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists

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Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Hayden Lasher, 29
Handbag Designer, Hayden Lasher
Lasher started her company in 2014, making classically shaped leather handbags, decorated with a little bow.
Derek Chu, 28
Senior Associate, Menlo Ventures
Since joining Menlo in 2012, Chu has sourced Munchery, The Black Tux, Synthego, Keaton Row, Virool, Glide, Jack Erwin and Service.
Emily Woods, 28
Cofounder, Sanivation
Sanivation has developed the first method for solar treatment of human waste.
Ruchit Nagar, 22
Cofounder, Khushi Baby
Nagar is working on producing necklaces that can be scanned by health care workers to pull up a patient's medical record.
Esther Tricoche, 29
Associate Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund
ricoche seeks to increase the number of black and Latino founders, CEOs and senior leadership teams in edtech.
Karan Jerath, 19
Inventor, University of Texas
The Friendswood High School student engineered an innovative subsea wellhead containment device.
Ocean Pleasant, 18
Founder, REAL Magazine
Pleasant founded REAL Magazine when she was 17, and one year later, she scaled it nationally to over 40 retailers and 150,000 readers.
Jerry Hum, 29; Dennis Lui, 29; Steven Ou, 27; Jonathan Wu, 28
Co-Founders, Touch of Modern
The men's lifestyle e-commerce/flash sales site are nearing $100 million in revenues.
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Eight Houstonians on Forbes 30 Under 30 ListsHayden Lasher, 29 Handbag Designer, Hayden Lasher Lasher started her company in 2014, making classically shaped leather handbags, decorated with a little bow.

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Forbes just released its 30 Under 30 Lists. Features are 600 of the brightest young entrepreneurs, breakout talents and change agents in 20 different sectors under the age of 30. Eight Houstonians are on the lists.