Georgia holding her rainbow sticker. Photo by: Christopher Padgett
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n 2016, a 10year-old from from Colorado appeared on Shark Tank with a business idea about “lemonade stands” and he was offered a deal (https://is.gd/ gIr0Nm) by Billionaire investor Chris Sacca, according to the Denver Post.
7-Year-Old Gives Back To LGBTQ Youth At 2 a
According to her father, she donated “all of the money earned, a couple hundred dollars, to the Salem YMCA children’s center where she was a weekly visitor.” That was the youngster’s first fundraising effort. years old she was already Her parents were behind the idea to budding entrepreneur teach their daughter about contributBy: chris gilmore | reporter ing to the community and helping others stonewall today who are in need.
Yet, pre-dating the boy in 2013, a 2-year-old in Salem Mass. had already started her entrepreneurial business similarly, but with a commitment to give back to humanity too, not merely just for-profit. Her father, Sully’s Brand owner Chris Wrenn, 43, explained that his daughter’s first lemonade stand was “recycled out of discarded pallets’ from his office, which he “built when she was two years old.”
“I got my lemonade stand when I was 2 and started selling lemonade for the YMCA at 3 and at 6 I started Georgia Made This [her website]”, said Georgia Wrenn, who will be 8 this summer, to The Rainbow Times. Shortly after turning just 3, Georgia, one of the youngest businesspersons in the commonwealth, was invited to sell lemonade at the Salem Peabody Essex Museum, PEM.
“This is something that has been very important for both Georgia’s mother, Elisabeth and I,” said Wrenn. “Giving back is one of the most important lessons that we can teach Georgia as she learns to be a little business person.”
Art runs in the family
Georgia, according to Wrenn, has been “drawing since she could hold a crayon.” But, creative talent isn’t a foreign concept to him or his father. Wrenn uses that talent when he showcases his art through Sully’s, the company he founded. That’s also when his fine arts degree comes in handy. see Georgia on page 58
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