I am so loving this child! Cory Nieves, 10, of Englewood: 'Regular kid' — who just happens be a CEO [View all]

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It all began as a way to help his mom buy a car.

In 2009, Cory Nieves, then 6, and his mom, Lisa Howard, then 24, had moved to Englewood from Harlem and found that navigating the suburbs without a set of wheels was difficult. But Howard, a single mom, didn't have the necessary funds. So young Cory decided to raise the cash by selling homemade hot cocoa in front of his home on Howard Avenue and at the Roman Inn just down the street. One cup, one dollar. The hot cocoa did so well, he added lemonade and cookies.

Business was thriving — "We made $100 a day," he said – when someone called the town's Health Department, which shut down the budding enterprise in early 2012. "They said we can't sell goods on the street," Howard said.

They don’t anymore. Today Cory, better known as Mr. Cory, is the 10-year-old CEO of Mr. Cory’s Cookies LLC, a burgeoning cookie company that not only sells cookies at community events, farmers’ markets and at Mr. Tod’s Pie Factory on Hudson Street, but also has a roster of prestigious clients, including the Englewood branches of Chase and PNC Bank, the Benzel Busch and Town Motors Porsche dealerships in Englewood, plus Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and United Water. The companies order the cookies in bulk and use them for special events and/or to give to their employees and customers.

"I'm just a CEO and a regular kid," declared the skinny, curly-Afro-haired youngster, looking nothing like a regular kid but a fashionable executive. His outfit today: a starched pink-and-blue striped work shirt, a green silk tie, a pair of crisp khakis and brown-leather Oxfords. "I love fashion," said the soon-to-be fifth grader, explaining that "when you look good," people don't wonder what you're up to. What the fashion-forward entrepreneur is up to – building Mr. Cory's Cookies – is mostly conducted in his bedroom, which sits atop Mr. Tod's Pie Factory. Mr. Tod's, besides selling his cookies, also lets him use its commercial kitchen to bake his cookies.

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I found it here~

http://3chicspolitico.com/2014/10/15/videos-cory-nieves-10-year-old-entrepenuer-mr-corys-cookies/

Who thinks our future is not bright~ I love this young man!

Lots more a 3chicspolitico link!

Bravo!