Steven Li is the founder of The Rising^[1], a publication that covers how changes in the environment impact business, politics, and technology, a Contributing Writer at Entrepreneur Magazine^[2], and a computer scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Formerly, he co-founded Youth Business Collective, a publication he grew to over 50,000 readers while he attended high school.

Steven was born in Austin, Texas, but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where finished his K-12 schooling. Steven looked up to Andrew Yang, founder of Venture for America, and his work inspired Steven to start companies.

When he was 16, he started his first "real" company, a publication covering the stories of young entrepreneurs.

Though the publication grew to have over 50,000 readers, a failure to monetize eventually forced it to shut down in August of 2018.

Having learned from the failure, Steven started The Rising. As of August 2019, the publication does over 100,000 impressions per week across over 25,000 monthly readers.