
Q&A: Behind the scenes of 'Shark Tank' with Jason Li, FalconOnline, 3/17/2014. On March 14, senior Jason Li presented his business, iReTron, on the ABC reality TV show “Shark Tank,” which gives entrepreneurs the chance to pitch their ideas against five “sharks.” iReTron recycles and sells used electronics. Li received $100,000 in grant money from investors Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran, on the condition that they would own 20% of any business he made in the next five years. Read More
Interview with Jason Li, Teen Social Entrepreneur and Successful Participant of "Shark Tank", INNOV8SOCIAL, 4/12/2014. Jason's company, iReTron, buys back used electronics for a cash value, and then re-furbishes and re-sells or recycles the products. Jason was successful in raising his ask of $100K through an investment by Barbara Corcoran and Mark Cuban, for a 20% equity stake in his company plus 20% of any company he starts in the next five years. Read More

iReTron Pays Cash for Electronics, Shark Tank Success, 3/14/2014. How many old cellphones, iPhones, iPads, iPods, Mp3 players, calculators, e-readers, tablets or just about anything electronics, do you have lying around collecting dust? Well it's time to gather them all up and send them to the next young Shark Tank Entrepreneur, Jason Li, the owner of iRetron. Jason started buying and recycling used electronics in his freshman year at Saratoga High School. Now just a few years later in his senior year, Jason is ready to take iRetron's way of buying, selling and recycling used electronics into this episode of the Shark Tank Show. Read More
Teen Tycoons: Big Changes Fuel Growth, Vertical Growth, 1/30/2014. Back in 2012, we held a video contest to recognize and reward teen entrepreneurship, dubbed “America’s Next Teen Tycoon.” Jason Li, our grand-prize winner who nabbed $4,000 in cash, impressed voters and our judges the most with his electronics-recycling business, iReTron. Second-place winner Jack Uesugi, who earned $2,000 in startup capital from VerticalResponse, also captured tons of attention with his t-shirt design business, a1000x. Read More
Saratoga: Li ranks No. 25 on 'World's Smartest' teen list, Saratoga Mercury News, 11/04/2013. Jason Li's genius has never been in question. When this newspaper interviewed the 16-year-old in March 2012, he had just been named the "Next Teen Tycoon" after creating a startup that pays people to send in their old electronics and then either resells or recycles them. As part of his prize, Jason received $4,000 and a trip to New York City to attend 2013 TEDxTeen. While that may have been a major highlight of his high school career, it certainly wasn't the only one. Read More

15-Year-Old Student Fights the Electronic Waste Crisis with iReTron, MacLife, 5/10/2012. Jason Li, CEO of iReTron , is trying to save the planet, one electronic device at a time. That is, when he is not juggling the rigors of his sophomore year honors courses at Saratoga High School and extra-curricular activities like wrestling, piano, judo, speech and debate club. Li is 15-years-old, and once we got over feeling depressed at how much we didn't accomplish in high school, we reached out to him for his story. Read More
iReTron, run by teen, will buy used gadgets, SFGate, 4/2/2012. The gadgets gathering dust in an old drawer could be worth something: Up to $47 for a classic iPod, $88 for a Blackberry Torch or $97 for a Kindle. That's the pitch from iReTron, a new website created by a 15-year-old high school sophomore to help people get rid of their old electronics. Read More
