MILAN
KORDESTANI
Hi, I’m
A relentless founder, and writer, whose entrepreneurial journey began with the brokerage of rare turtle morphs
(not click-bait)
Here’s my story
Milan is a 3x founder focused on building sustainable businesses that drive positive social change. He is currently the CEO of Audo, building alternatives to traditional education and work by creating effective learning and earning opportunities. Milan also founded and serves as chairman of the world’s first vetted, anonymous publication, The Doe. With a focus on investing in culture, Milan co-founded the artist-friendly record label Guin Music. He also strives to encourage solutions through storytelling and narration of civil discourse in his writing for Entrepreneur, The Rolling Stone, and his web series, NextPlay.
Founder. Builder. Innovator.
Now, at 23 years old, I’ve spent the last five years building three companies that all aim to create positive impacts in people’s lives by re-imagining how systems work entirely. My mindset is to approach solving societal problems at the root causes, by installing systems to automate positive change over time.
NOTA
Milan is the sole founder of NOTA, the world’s first anonymous digital publication seeking to restore civil discourse. Providing empathy through anonymous, vetted narratives, Nota expertly curates and shares the stories of everyday people whose voices are too often ignored.
Audo
Audo brings together a skill set curriculum with a robust marketplace, providing Gen Z with the tools and resources to take control of their futures by embracing an innovative path for education and career growth.
Guin Music
Milan is a proud co-founder of Guin Music with his sister, Misha Kordestani, an artist-friendly record label conglomerate. Guin Music currently services a roster of 10 artists, while building a full artist-first-ecosystem focused on artist development, artist investment, music production, and artist marketing.
Now, while I may not be a turtle hustler anymore, I am still a writer, in addition to operating Audo and advising my other companies. As a writer, I aim to share the lessons I’m learning throughout my personal and professional career by contributing on Entrepreneur, Rolling Stone, Forbes Business Council (YEC), and on my blog here. I’m also currently writing my first book, I'm Just Saying (coming March 2023).
Finally, when I catch some free time, I like to interview fellow eco-system builders with a focus on impact, at NextPlay. The hope is to inspire other people to work on impactful projects, and to drive support for the builders working to make our world better.
Why am I doing all of this?
Short answer
My mission is to improve the lives of others by building self-maintaining mechanisms across multiple industries to promote positive change.
Long Answer
Everyone encounters moments throughout their lives, un-timed, where they question what they’re doing with the limited amount of days they have to live. Since I was a child, I hated the feeling of boredom, likely because my mother instilled in my sister and I that with so much access and privilege, to claim boredom would be a farce. Now, the real question is, how do you balance and fill your time to prevent boredom? Probably some balance of spending time with the people you love, doing the things you love, and making money to sustain it all.
So really, when I think about my approach to “why” I do what I do, it’s to create opportunities for other people to love what they do, while creating positive change in the world. I strive to employ as many people as possible, to work in ecosystems where their deliverables ladder up to tangible positive impact on lives.
A passion for civil discourse
I started writing while working on one of my early agriculture ventures and was fortunate to become one of the first teen writers for The Huffington Post in 2016. The experience uncovered an unfilled niche in the publishing industry: vetted, anonymous, publishing. With a drive to publish the stories of the unheard and burst people out of their echo-chambers with jarring first-person accounts, I became obsessed with researching civil discourse, and creating solutions to re-build civil-discourse during such divisive times for our society.
Through my work with NOTA, my own writing, and my upcoming book, I'm hoping to teach the skills and inspire the conversations for individuals to engage in civil discourse around the most challenging topics of our time.
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