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Children: New billionaires - BBC News

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    Is this a future billionaire?
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    At fifteen, Thomas creates himself
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    apps for smartphones in Google Glass.
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    That's what he's wearing by the way.
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    Are you recording too?
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    And that's how he's filming us, with these glasses.
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    And Thomas has big plans for his summer.
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    He wants to revolutionize 3D printing technology.
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    Recently I applied for a patent on 3D printing
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    trying to make 3D printing faster
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    and more reliable.
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    The key there is speed and we're trying
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    to print ten times faster
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    than current generation 3D printers.
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    Thomas is self-taught
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    when it comes to business encoding.
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    This school is trying to create entrepreneur
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    starting from age eleven.
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    For advertising, we add advertise
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    I use social media as a device
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    and then we have up here
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    this is my profit chart implement.
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    At the incubator school,
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    kids are encouraged to start companies
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    on school time.
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    Hi, my name is Armand Ismael
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    I'm the CEO of I-supply.
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    Hi, my name is Logan Fisher,
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    I am the CFO and the director of marketing
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    in I-supply.
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    Hi, my name is Theo Trim
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    and I'm the head of sales at I-supply.
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    These twelve-year-ord captains of industry
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    plan to sell school supplies
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    to their classmates.
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    They say kids have a big advantage
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    when it comes to creating the next big thing.
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    Kids are more creative because
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    they haven't been boxed in by the world yet:
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    you're gonna do this, you're gonna do that, you're gonna do this.
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    Kids, you know, stuff that mind work.
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    For example, I'm gonna be Superman when I grow up.
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    How did you come up with the idea?
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    I never liked band-aid
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    and I didn't want people
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    to see that I have something,
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    because look at the board.
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    This pint-size CEO is the youngest ever
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    to dive into reality TV "Shark Tank".
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    At seven, she considers herself
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    a lifelong inventor.
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    I feel like being an entrepreneur.
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    You don't have to follow somebody else's orders.
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    You can just be more free.
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    Good girl! That peach was juicy, wasn't it?
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    Kiowa's dream is to become a zoologist
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    while making Boo Boo Brands
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    into a household name.
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    Kids are still kids,
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    even if they are entrepreneurs.
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    Sage advice for a new generation
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    of business leaders.
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    Regan Morris, BBC News, Los Angeles.
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Children: New billionaires - BBC News
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