Steve Mariotti

Steve Mariotti is known for Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon, a documentary film about the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), which Mariotti founded in 1987 to teach low-income youth how to start small businesses. Since then, NFTE has served more than a million teens from Chicago to China with life-changing entrepreneurship education. In 2020, Mariotti executive produced the PBS documentary series Trauma to Triumph: Women Entrepreneurs (Teletime). In 2019, Mariotti's memoir Goodbye Homeboy: How My Students Drove Me Crazy and Inspired a Movement, with Debra Devi, reached #22 in Amazon Biographies, #1 in four other Amazon categories, and won multiple awards. "The South Bronx Entrepreneurship Club," a screenplay adaptation by Mariotti and Devi is a Big Apple Film Festival semi-finalist.