I’m a teen and became a multi-millionaire with my lemonade business

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Mikaila Ulmer, from Texas, created her own brand of lemonade and scored a sweet $ 11 million deal from Whole Foods back in 2016.

Mikaila, now 17, first thought up the idea for her company when she was four years old and received an old cookbook from her great-grandma.

Although the book was in tatters, the young girl found a 1940s recipe for flaxseed lemonade and decided to give it a go.The inspiration came after she was stung twice by bees and was left terrified, according to After doing some research into bees with her mum, Mikaila soon learned about their importance and the implications if they were to become extinct.

On her website, she wrote: “I decided to give her beloved lemonade a new twist by adding honey from bees, instead of only sugar.

 

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It's says she came up wth the idea at age 4. Guess she also bankrolled the distribution herself as well?

there is no excuse for everyone to be rich then. Poverty should not exist in this country. What a great reminder you solved poverty :)

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