A particularly determined young American became a millionaire businesswoman at just 11 years old, thanks to the lemonade company she founded.
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In an interview with The Sun, Mikaila Ulmer, a 17-year-old teenager from Texas, told how she made her fortune in 2016.
At only four years old, the young girl claims to have discovered an old lemonade recipe in a book dating from the 1940s and which had been given to her by her great-grandmother. She decided to add honey to it and started selling at a kiosk in front of her house.
The idea to put honey in the beverage came to her after she was stung twice by bees. Mikaila therefore began to learn about bees and discovered their importance and the repercussions if they were to disappear.
The young entrepreneur therefore added honey to her lemonade and took the opportunity to raise awareness about the protection of bees. She named her product “Me & the Bees Lemonade.”
The brand has been very successful and caught the attention of the distribution company Whole Foods, which is present in several countries, including Canada. The organic products distribution company therefore concluded an $11 million agreement with Mikaila in 2016 to put its lemonade on grocery store shelves.