Alina Morse, CEO of Zolli Candy, is youngest to ever beryllium connected screen of Entrepreneur Magazine

A lollipop that cleans your teeth. Its inventor, the youngest CEO ever to grace the screen of entrepreneur magazine.

ANN ARBOR, MI. – Here’s a question we’ve pondered for decades… however galore licks does it instrumentality to get to the halfway of a tootsie pop? The subject has spoken!

A survey successful the diary of fluid mechanics reveals it takes 25-hundred licks. But with each lick your kid is putting their mouth, they’re risking their pearly whites!

Believe it oregon not, bony decay is the astir communal chronic puerility disease. Candy and soda are 2 large culprits. But 1 institution is combating that with an improbable product, and, an arsenic improbable CEO.

“My dada ever told maine you cognize you shouldn’t person candy; sweetener is unspeakable for your teeth,” Alina Morse, CEO of Zolli Candy said.

But Alina Morse wasn’t going to judge it.

“So, I asked him, wherefore can’t we marque a steadfast candy?”

And that is however Zollipop was born. A lollipop that cleans your teeth. Its inventor, the youngest CEO ever to grace the screen of Entrepreneur Magazine. The thought came to Alina astatine seven.

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She cooked up concoctions, asked her dentist questions, and had friends illustration them. Zollipops uses a low-calorie sweetener called arithatol. It reduces the acerb successful your mouth, that causes bacteria, which tin interruption down enamel.

She utilized $4,000 dollars she saved from past birthdays. Her dada matched it and unneurotic they recovered a accumulation installation and distributor. By nine-years-old she got her archetypal yes. 18 months aboriginal she turned a profit.

Now, it’s a multimillion-dollar company, and it’s successful galore of the nation’s largest retailers, and successful 7 countries.

Her fig 1 extremity for wannabe concern owners: constitute it down. Use enactment networks and societal media groups. Gather a squad you spot and inquire a batch of questions.

“As adults we benignant of discontinue asking questions, but kids haven’t tried things and they person large questions. And perceive and research those ideas with them,” Tom Morse, Alina’s dada and manager of Zolli Candy said.

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Her aboriginal ngo is create, oregon arsenic she says, “zolli-fy” much products.

“It truly is, not lone a palmy institution successful my eyes, but besides a institution doing good,” Alina said of her ngo for the company.

Her nonprofit, a cardinal smiles, gives escaped candy to schools. Ten percent of each her income spell to enactment oral wellness education. Teachers funny successful a cardinal smiles, tin spell to Zolli candy’s website to motion up.

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