Browse photos from Demo Day 2026. At this annual event, the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute welcomed dozens of student entrepreneurs at the University of Utah to celebrate the end of the year by showcasing their products and services. Learn more at lassonde.utah.edu/demo.
Here are the photos from events and activities at Lassonde Studios in April 2026. During this month, we signed the wall with the L10 student community, finished our classes for the spring semester, attended Make It activities, learned new skills at Workshops, enjoyed the outdoors, and more. Find upcoming events here: lassonde.utah.edu/calendar
Congratulations to everyone who graduated with a Master of Business Creation (MBC) or entrepreneurship degree in the class of 2026! Browse photos from their graduation ceremony on May 2 in the gallery below. Learn more about options to study entrepreneurship at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business here: https://eccles.utah.edu/entp.
In 2018, Kelby Gatrell was approached by his brother-in-law, Abraham Bedard, about starting a golf company. Even though Gatrell had never played a round of golf in his life, he decided to take the risk and launch Yatta Golf. As co-founder and vice president of sales, Gatrell watched the company grow but also noticed critical […]
Pretend is building a platform designed to help teams keep up with the demands of content creation without relying on the slow, complex structure of traditional creative work. Michael Potter, a filmmaker and creative entrepreneur, brings years of experience in film production and client work to Pretend. Potter joined the University of Utah’s Master of […]
When Princess Bombyck was 9 years old, a civil war forced her family from their home in Liberia. In the chaos, a young American public health student showed up to help. She provided basic health care to families who had nothing, and though she may never know the impact of that one act, it changed […]
As the founder of Gilded, Annika Stacey didn’t set out to make just another coffee table book. She set out to create something that mattered. After moving into a new home, she placed a handcrafted oak table, built by her father-in-law, at the center of her space. As she searched for a book to place […]
James Larkin and Luca Schneider, both first year students at the University of Utah, have a vision for making the average coffee trip high quality, convenient, affordable and time efficient. They have been pursuing this goal through their business Summit Cafe. Both entrepreneurs come from a background in catering which is where they had the […]
Jared Snow, a recent graduate of the University of Utah’s Master of Business Creation (MBC) program and CEO of Destination Peru, played a central role in a historic Utah trade delegation to Peru — serving not only as a participant, but as the operator responsible for executing the delegation’s travel and on-the-ground experience in Cusco […]
University of Utah entrepreneurship student Aiden Leone launched Leone’s Barbershop, a mobile business serving the campus community, with a simple question: “What if I got good at this?” Leone first became interested in barbering during high school after his barber moved away from California. Left without a barber, he started seeing his mom’s hairstylist. She […]
