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13-year-old Maya Penn is the CEO of Maya’s Ideas 4 The Planet. She sells her own knit scarves and hats online, and recently gave a TEDtalk on entrepreneurship.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast that showcases some of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference. The conference allows the world’s leading thinkers and doers to give the “talk of their lives” in 18 minutes or less. 

Watch Maya’s talk: 

Maya started her first company at 8-years-old. She thinks critically about how to be responsible to both her customers and the planet.

Check out Maya’s design’s here.

This girl is so bright!

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