Zarnab Tufail

Sloth Co. provides users with smart time management, organizational skills, and productivity tools. Rucha Mehendale and Lillian Hao founded Sloth in order to help users, specifically high school students, improve their study habits and overall work productivity. I had the honor of interviewing Rucha Mehendale and Lillian Hao. Here is what they had to say about Sloth Co. and teen entrepreneurship. What was the inspiration behind your business/organization?

When it comes to Islam, everything inside me halts and freezes, with feelings of both peace and uncomfortable alienation spearing through me like a jagged knife. Growing up in a strict, traditional, and religious family meant observing the five daily prayers, learning, and reading the Quran, despite not knowing what any of it even meant but memorizing surahs anyway and being forced to wear hijab everywhere in public from the age of ten or eleven.

The Girls in Aerospace Foundation is a Seattle-based nonprofit dedicated to providing young women with aerospace and STEM opportunities to lessen the gender gap within the aviation industry. It focuses on providing role models and resources for girls worldwide, creating a future in which the next generation of aerospace leaders will be females. Interview with Karolina Dubiel. What was the inspiration behind your business/organization?