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And we continue with our American stories.

Our next story is brought to us by the youngest person ever to be featured on the cover

of Entrepreneur magazine. Let's take a listen. My name's Alina Morse. I'm 16 years old,

and I am the CEO and founder of Zali Candy. Zolli Candy is all natural sugar-free

candy that cleans your teeth. But my entrepreneurial journey didn't start at seven years old with

Zali Candy. I had been coming up with inventions and crazy outlandish ideas for products

since I was about three years old. Around that age,

two, three years old, my dad read me the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. It was such an interesting

experience because as much of the book that I didn't understand, the thing that stuck with me was

you can help people

through business. So I began writing all of my inventions and compiling them into what I called

my idea binder and drawn what I had called a business plan, but was really more of just a picture

with some labels. And as I grew up, I grew up with this binder.

I would say some of the most prominent inventions from that time were definitely robot daddies.

The name is pretty self-explanatory. It's a robot that can go to work as your dad. And at this time, you know,

my dad, he was a CPA, so he was going on tons of business trips, and I really missed having

my dad around. And I wanted him to stay home and, you know, we could hang out. And just among,

among those, there was lots of odds and ends of fun games or a new sport.

As much as they weren't cohesive ideas, they did keep me occupied coming up with fun new business plans and pitching them to my parents.

So really from that book, I learned that I could help my mom, I could help my dad, I could help my younger sister even, by coming up with an invention to make their lives a little bit easier on the day-to-day basis.

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