History Main / YoungEntrepreneur

* ''SouthPark'': Cartman was revealed to be this in "My Future Self and Me" Later his future version appears and reveals that, one he changes his lifestyle, he will become a rather successful businessman. He refuses, and future!Cartman immediately becomes a slovenly plumber.

* Hustler Kid from ''{{Recess}}''

** During the Crash 2.0, a teenager working part-time at a Stuffer Stack fast food restaurant managed, on accident, to place a stock order for [[MegaCorp Shiawase]] at the exact millisecond the Crash caused the stock price to plummet for nanopennies on the dollar. By the time the Crash's aftereffects sorted themselves out, he found himself owning over 4% of one of the largest corporations on the planet. This technically makes him a millionaire on a grand scale, but also puts him way over his head as a major deciding vote between two separate factions of the family-run company, both of whom want him to support their agenda or sell his shares to him. OrElse.

* The entire premise of the Children's BBC series ''{{Kerching}}''.

These children are great with money and are always looking for ways to make more. They always seem to be coming up with one ZanyScheme after another and will always try to cheat other children, and occasionally adults, from their cash. If they're good at it, they could also be a ChildProdigy or a TeenGenius. In shows with a particularly lax depiction of [[SlidingScaleOfRealisticVersusFantastic realism]], these children could even have their own legitimate companies and firms with actual clients who take them seriously.

* From the ''[[SixteenThirtyTwo Ring of Fire]]'' short stories, a borderline example and taken as SeriousBusiness with the Sewing Circle; they grow to the age of majority ''after'' starting their sewing machine line and investment fund company. Strangely enough, contrary to the trope description, this example is rather [[SlidingScaleOfRealisticVersusFantastic realistic.]]
** Members of the Barbie Consortium also count as young entrepreneurs.

* The Weasley twins in HarryPotter.

* The entire premise of the Children's BBC series ''{{Kerching}}''

* Eddy from ''EdEddAndEddy''.
* Cartman was revealed to be this in "My Future Self and Me" Later his future version appears and reveals that, one he changes his lifestyle, he will become a rather successful businessman. He refuses, and future!Cartman immediately becomes a slovenly plumber.

->[[EarWorm You bought it! You are smart! You bought it at Malo Mart!]]

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* Dobbs, one of the bullies from ''[[MaxKeeblesBigMove Max Keeble's Big Move]]'', has this as his background: he was a millionaire at twelve but lost everything in the stock market, so now he steals lunch money on the pretense he's "investing" it.

* Chaz from TheRoyalTenenbaums.

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** Members of the Barbie Consortium also count as [[YoungEntrepreneur young entrepreneurs.]]

* The ''{{Shadowrun}}'' sourcebook ''Runner Havens'' has a kid in Hong Kong who runs a very popular noodle stand known as "Noodleboy's". According to one of the hackers, the kid's also a money-launderer for one of the Hong Kong Triads.
** During the Crash 2.0, a teenager working part-time at a Stuffer Stack fast food restaurant managed, on accident, to place a stock order for [[MegaCorp Shiawase]] at the exact millisecond the Crash caused the stock price to plummet for nanopennies on the dollar. By the time the Crash's aftereffects sorted themselves out, he found himself owning over 4% of one of the largest corporations on the planet. This technically makes him a millionaire on a grand scale, but also puts him way over his head as a major deciding vote between two separate factions of the family-run company, both of whom want him to support their agenda or sell his shares to him. OrElse.

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* Zach was prone to this in early seasons of SavedByTheBell, though he grew out of it as time went on.
* Subverted in one ''MagnumPI'' . Magnum was hired for security for the "vast holdings" of a teenage CattleBaron . As it turned out it was a con, and the "vast holdings" were rather skinny. But he did do a good job of taking care of his birthright such as it was.
** In the pilot they meet "Snow White" a beautiful MafiaPrincess who controls most of the coke in Hawaii. Obviously she is not a nice YoungEntrepreneur. She does have [[MagnificentBastard style]] though.

* An episode of LawAndOrder had a minor witness who owned a nightclub circuit where a shooting took place. A 16-year-old prep school student, he came to the interview armed with a Blackberry and a cutthroat business plan that he explained to the dubious detectives: He doesn't own a permanent property, but instead rents various locations on a night-by-night basis, paying for just enough renovations to bring them up to code as needed. By renting, he eliminates most of the overhead and down profit time of keeping his club open on unprofitable weeknights. Paid admission is handled by bouncers at the door, while drinks are served (for typically insane prices) by an automatic dispenser that eliminates spills and free drinks from bartenders, to say nothing of having to pay the bartenders themselves. All the permits, licenses, and such are handled by an older friend/business partner.

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* Jenny from the comic ''SafeHavens''.
* Lucy from {{Peanuts}} is one of the older examples of this trope. She's been selling psychiatric advice to Charlie Brown, whether he wants it or not, for 60 years.

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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg Zuckerberg]], anyone? Also [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett Warren Buffett]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dell Michael Dell]].
** As a general rule, most billionaires became rich in their 20s/30s.
* DragonsDen occasionally features teenagers. The Dragons are noticibly nicer to them then they are to other entrepreneurs, and always compliment them on being so driven at a young age.

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* Malo, the huge fore-headed infant from ''TheLegendOfZelda: [[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' turns out to be a ruthless and savvy businessman when he takes over the shop in the Goron village.

** As a general rule, most billionaires became rich young.

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* Deuce Martinez from ''ShakeItUp'', who sells everything from defective watches to counterfeit LadyGaga tickets.

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[[caption-width:221:Capitalism Ho!]]

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