[2] Previously, Pasternak founded Monkey, a social networking app that enabled teenagers to video chat with like-minded people.

He designed his first publicly launched mobile app, Impossible Rush, while bored in science class at school.

[10] He showed the idea to his online friend Austin Valleskey, an iOS engineer from Chicago, and the pair created the game in a matter of hours.

[12] A few months after declining the offers, Pasternak dropped out of high school at the age of 15 and moved to New York City to accept venture capital funding for his first company, Flogg.

[13] Ben was recognized as one of the youngest people ever to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at the age of 15.

[14] In April 2015, Pasternak founded Flogg, a social networking app for young people to buy and sell.

[17][non-primary source needed] In late 2016, Pasternak shut down Flogg and pivoted the company's focus towards building Monkey, an app that enabled teenagers to video chat with like-minded people.