Mentor Select: Parenting Teens To Be Successful Adults - MS-068: How to be G.R.E.A.T- Entrepreneur Kenneth Biz Allen shares how he started his first company at age 12 out of the necessity

MS-068: How to be G.R.E.A.T- Entrepreneur Kenneth Biz Allen shares how he started his first company at age 12 out of the necessity

11/13/19 • 48 min

Mentor Select: Parenting Teens To Be Successful Adults

Kenneth “Biznessman” Allen, founder of the Kenneth Allen Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Inc. (KAFFE, Inc.) CEO of K.S. Consultants and Managing Editor of Prominent Magazine which he co-owns with Entrepreneurial Icons Farrah Gray and Bill Mays. Allen was born and raised in an impoverished neighborhood in Gary, Ind. Growing up in a single-parent household, Kenneth defied national statistics for Black males and graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School at age 17. Allen’s love for entrepreneurship began early. At 12, he started his first business venture, K.S. Candies, in his grandfather’s garage. Operating for more than six years, K.S. Candies ranked 79 out of 100 youth businesses in the nation according to Young Biz, Inc. By 15, Allen was sharing his love for entrepreneurship with others as a Certified Entrepreneur Instructor. He is Young Biz’s youngest certified instructor in the country.

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