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Saturday 20 May 2017

5 COMPANIES FOUNDED BY TEENAGERS.


1.Name of company=Summly
C.E.O=Nick D'Aloisio

D'Aloisio, now in his early twenties, can proudly say that a multinational corporation
purchased his company and made him a millionaire. At 15, he received backing from Horizon Ventures and other angel investors to develop Summly; a summarization app that algorithmically creates summaries of news articles optimized for the iPhone. In March of 2013, Yahoo acquired D'Aloisio's company for $30 million. D'Aloisio is now studying at Oxford University in London.

2.Name of Company=Cook With Amber
C.E.O=Amber Kelley

In September 2016, 14-year-old Amber Kelley was declared the winner of the televised culinary competition Food Network Star Kids, which landed her a Food Network web series. But even before her big win, Kelley had made her mark in the world of young celebrity chefs: Since 2012, she's been the star of her own healthy cooking YouTube channel, Cook With Amber , and currently has more than 37,700 subscribers. According to her website , Kelley was featured as a "Kid Coach" at Mashable’s 2016 Kid Talks, an "Inspirational Kid" on the Today Show, and a "Culinary Wizard" on the 2015 Academy Awards' Live From the Red Carpet on E!.

3.Name of Company=Leanna's Essentials
C.E.O= Leanna Archer

When Leanna Archer was 8 years old, she decided to share her great grandmother's recipe for an all-natural hair pomade. She started giving it out for free in baby food jars, and now sells her all-natural, sulfate and paraben-free hair and skin products worldwide. The line includes cleansing masks, skin lotion, hair treatments, shampoos, conditioners and more. Leanna is now the CEO of Leanna's Essentials. and her company has been recognized by prominent business publications like Forbes and Success Magazine. She even started the Leanna Archer Education Foundation to build schools and safe learning environments for underprivileged children in Haiti.

4. Name of Company=Nay Games C.E.O=Robert Nay

In 2010, a new mobile game app called "Bubble Ball" launched in the Apple app store. In its first two weeks it received more than 1 million downloads, surpassing "Angry Birds" as the most downloaded free game from Apple. Robert Nay, a 14-year-old with no previous coding experience, built this game. According to CNN, Nay learned everything he needed to know through research at the public library, and produced 4,000 lines of code for his physics-based puzzle game in just one month. Nay Games now offers games to help students learn sight words and spelling, Bubble Ball Pro, and Bubble Ball: Curiosity Edition, in addition to the original Bubble Ball.

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5.Name of Compqny=Mo's Bows C.E.O= Moziah "Mo" Bridges

After being disappointed in the bow ties available to him on the market, a fashion-forward, 9-year-old Moziah Bridges learned how to sew his own with the help of his grandmother. He began selling his bow ties on Etsy and his products were soon picked up by boutiques in several states.

On top of his business success, Bridges was invited to the inaugural White House Demo Day, where he was able to personally meet President Obama and gift him with a special "Obama blue" Mo's Bow.

Bridges, who was mentored by Shark Tank's Daymond John, is now 14 years old and serves as the CEO of Mo's Bows handmade bow ties, a Memphis based, family-run business.

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