We’re facing the biggest youth unemployment crisis in a generation, according to the International Labour Organisation.
All this week the BBC is focusing on the lost generation of young people and what’s being done to generate jobs.
We have given some young entrepreneurs the opportunity to put their questions to a business professional.
Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal which has more than 100 million active accounts. He also made the first outside investment in Facebook, a social networking hub that now has more than 800 million active members.