When Deven Jain speaks, corporate executives three times his age listen. That’s because he has something almost no other 23-year-old does: a board seat at a publicly traded company.
Jain became a director of BranchOut Food Inc., an Oregon-based snack maker, two years ago, when he was still studying finance at the University of Virginia and working as an analyst at a family office. BranchOut Food was trading below $1 per share at the time, but Jain — who’d gained a significant following on Substack picking microcap stocks — saw potential. He persuaded his boss to take a stake, ...
