In the August 2011 issue of the Alumni Magazine, we introduced you to Georgia Tech’s Class of 2015, including Christine Proctor, a freshman business administration major from Atlanta.
Proctor came to Tech with some entrepreneurial experience under her belt: Christine’s Cakes, the one-woman cake baking-and-decorating business she founded at age 14. But if you expected her to put those confectionary inclinations on hold while earning her degree, you were sorely mistaken. Christine’s Cakes has only continued to grow, and Proctor has channeled her passion for small business into the Scheller Society of Entrepreneurs, a networking organization for Tech business students.
Proctor’s double-duty hustle recently caught the eye of Bloomberg Businessweek, who featured a Q&A with the third-year student on their website earlier this week.
Are you planning to keep up with the business after graduation?
I’m being pulled in two different directions. I’ve worked only for myself for about six years. When you’re working alone, there’s only one opinion. I’d love to get someone’s critical feedback. … It’s scary, because I think I should take this on, but I also want to finish school. I’ve done one couple’s engagement cake, wedding cake, and their son’s second-birthday cake. It’s nice to make a product that people live their lives around.
Read Proctor’s Bloomberg Businessweek interview in full here, and order a Christine’s Cake of your own right here.
Above: Proctor, at center, attends a freshman orientation session in 2011.
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