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How This 13-Year-Old Entrepreneur Built a Multi-Million Dollar Candy CompanyBetween school, dance and hanging with friends, Alina Morse is running a national candy brand.

ByLakshmi Varanasi

This story appears in theSeptember 2018issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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Just 30 miles northwestof Detroit is the headquarters of a multimillion-dollar candy company calledZollipops. It's housed in a plain-looking warehouse, containing little more than boxes and boxes of sugar-free lollipops, hard candy and taffy that's sold online and in more than 7,500 stores, and is overseen by a team of six full-timeemployeesand several independent contractors. But down a hall, fluorescent lights make way for the real magic of the place: a corner office decorated with sparkling pink dance trophies, paintings of smiling suns and construction-paper family trees -- the handiwork of the company's founder andCEO, 13-year-old Alina Morse.

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