--- title: Meet the 14-Year-Old Whiz Kid Who Turned Down $30 Million description: High school freshman Taylor Rosenthal's idea for first-aid vending-machines is a hit with investors. authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Education - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology published: '2016-05-11T20:27:40.000Z' modified: '2021-03-09T06:45:41.000Z' section: Education tags: - first aid - medical - pubdesk - startup - TechCrunch Disrupt word_count: 288 canonical: https://money.com/meet-the-14-year-old-whiz-kid-who-turned-down-30-million/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![first-aid-vending](https://img.money.com/2016/05/first-aid-vending.jpeg) What were you doing at 14? Chances are, you weren’t launching your own first-aid vending-machine business. That’s exactly what high school freshman Taylor Rosenthal is doing, though: As part of an eighth-grade project for a Young Entrepreneurs Academy class last year, Rosenthal jumped on the idea of making first-aid supplies available at places like school baseball stadiums, remembering games that ground to a halt while everyone stopped to look for a Band-Aid if a player got a cut or scrape, according to [CNN Money](http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/10/technology/recmed-taylor-rosenthal-techcrunch-disrupt/). When Rosenthal crunched the numbers and realized it wouldn’t make economic sense to hire people to sell first-aid supplies at games (there’s a reason ballpark beers cost $12, after all), he hit on the idea of a vending machine, designed a prototype and got a patent. This is a kid with confidence in his vision: Although Rosenthal has raised $100,000 from investors to help fund RecMed First Aid Kits, he turned down a $30 million offer to buy the business so he could keep developing it himself, and he’s also the youngest-ever participant in TechCrunch Disrupt, an industry event taking place this week in Brooklyn. The vending machines, which Rosenthal hopes will roll out to places like ballparks and amusement parks — he already has an order from Six Flags for 100 machines, CNN Money said — will stock first-aid supplies like Band-Aids, gauze, tape and ointment, as well as pre-packaged kits for dealing with situations like bee stings or skinned knees. Prices will run from roughly $6 to $20. Rosenthal’s parents, who are both in the medical field, gave him some input on his prototype, but this entrepreneur isn’t planning to follow in their professional footsteps: He wants to go to business school. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/meet-the-14-year-old-whiz-kid-who-turned-down-30-million/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Education", "item": "https://money.com/education/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "High School", "item": "https://money.com/high-school/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Meet the 14-Year-Old Whiz Kid Who Turned Down $30 Million" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/meet-the-14-year-old-whiz-kid-who-turned-down-30-million/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/meet-the-14-year-old-whiz-kid-who-turned-down-30-million/", "name": "Meet the 14-Year-Old Whiz Kid Who Turned Down $30 Million", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-05-11T20:27:40.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/meet-the-14-year-old-whiz-kid-who-turned-down-30-million/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/meet-the-14-year-old-whiz-kid-who-turned-down-30-million/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2021-03-09T06:45:41.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Meet the 14-Year-Old Whiz Kid Who Turned Down $30 Million", "articleSection": "Education", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/05/first-aid-vending.jpeg", "width": 1877, "height": 1599, "caption": "first-aid-vending" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha C. 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