Business World Records

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when he earned LinkedIn's Marketing Strategy Certification, awarded for passing a free online exam on planning advertising campaigns on LinkedIn, on February 18, 2026. In the video he shows his laminated certificate from LinkedIn Marketing Labs, with his name, the certificate number and its verification link, and says he earned it at 16. RecordSetter matched the certificate number on LinkedIn's own verification page, which lists him as the student with a completion date of February 18, 2026, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. His marketing plan clearly works.

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, China, was 13 when the HP Foundation's HP LIFE program presented his certificate of completion for Inventory Management, one of its free online business courses, on November 5, 2026. His screen recording shows the course marked completed on his HP LIFE dashboard, then the certificate itself in his name with its serial number. RecordSetter opened that serial on HP LIFE's own certificate page, which shows the same name, course and date, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. Thirteen and already managing stock.

Zoilo Adalia was 11 years old on October 6, 2015, when the free online learning platform Alison awarded a certificate for its course Understanding the Ebola Virus and How You Can Avoid It. In a phone screen recording, Zoilo opens the certificate with that name and award date, then follows its verification link to Alison's own learner verification page, which confirms the course, the completion date and a 95% score on the final assessment. Zoilo's stated date of birth, September 4, 2004, puts the age that day at 11 years and one month. At an age when most kids are dodging homework, Zoilo passed a course on dodging Ebola.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when SAP Learning issued him a course completion badge for Getting Started with SAP Emarsys, a free beginner course on running marketing campaigns with SAP's customer engagement software, on March 8, 2026. In the video he shows the printed certificate in his name, in a clear plastic sleeve on the carpet, with the issue date, the badge and a verification link, and says he is the youngest SAP certified in the whole world. RecordSetter opened that link on SAP's own badge page, which shows the badge issued to him on March 8, 2026, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. Campaign launched at 16.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, who was 16 at the time, earned certificates from programs created by 44 different companies, from Google, Microsoft and Meta courses on Coursera to job simulations for JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and British Airways on Forage and virtual work experience with Rolls-Royce and Airbus on Springpod. RecordSetter checked a certificate from each company on the issuer's own verification page in his name and counted each company once, leaving out universities, charities, government bodies and course providers. In the video, an SG Digital reporter interviews him and his father on the floor of the family's book-lined library. Not many people have trained at a bank, an airline and a law firm in the same year.

Entrepreneur Raivo Keskra established the private limited enterprise Hankeabi OUuml; in 18 minutes, 3.05 seconds. Keskra performed the feat infront of participants at the InnoEstonia 2009[] conference. He registered the private limited company using Ettevotjaportaal. See more about the record here.

Mac Lipscomb, Brian Cohen, and JB Lockhart listened to 24 elevator pitches in five minutes. This beat the previous record by three pitches. The record was set as part of New York Entrepreneur Week.

At the PepsiCo Digital Summit, 99 attendees grouped together and created the world's largest business card exchange circle. Every person in the group passed their business card to the person on their left. The record was officiated by RecordSetter CEO Dan Rollman. #digitalfuture

E-resident Dominik Panosch incorporated his company in 15 minutes, 33.00 seconds. He set the record at London Tech Week using the e-business register portal. Read more about the feat here.

Hanzala Nazir of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was 16 when the online learning platform UniAthena awarded him its Executive Diploma in Business Communication, a self-paced course on workplace, cross-cultural and written communication with quizzes along the way, on August 1, 2026. In the video he shows the printed diploma in a clear sleeve on a rug, with his name, the course title and the award date all readable. RecordSetter checked the blockchain ID printed on the diploma against UniAthena's own certificate checker, which shows it issued to him on that date, and took his age from the date of birth he supplied. Clearly a young man who knows how to get his message across.