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* Danny from ''ThePartridgeFamily''. He's the one who got them an agent (among other things).

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* Manolito in ''{{ComicStrip/Mafalda}}''.
* Jenny from the comic ''SafeHavens''.
* Lucy from ''{{ComicStrip/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.
* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] is ocassionally an entrepeneur selling [[http://www.businesspundit.com/calvin-and-hobbes-on-bailouts/ lemonade]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' often cross into this territory- although it's often more of an InformedAbility, since they don't keep the money themselves.

* ''Series/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.

* By the sixteenth ''Literature/TanTeamKZJikenNote'' novel ''The Red Mask Knows'', [[spoiler:Sunahara, a seventh grader, apparently became the owner of some mobile game business.]]

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

* [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] is ocassionally an entrepeneur selling [[http://www.businesspundit.com/calvin-and-hobbes-on-bailouts/ lemonade]].

* JohnGrisham has such a boy in ''ATimeToKill''.

* ''MagnumPI'':

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

[[caption-width-right:156:Giving unwanted advice since 1950.]]

* There's an executive boardroom scene in ''HudsonHawk'' that includes a kid who is presumably one of these.
* Dobbs, one of the bullies from ''MaxKeeblesBigMove'', 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.
* The ''RichieRich'' movie has its eponymous character taking over the family corporation while his parents are missing and presumed dead (by everyone but him). He carries on with his dad's tradition of being the antimatter opposite of the CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* Chaz from ''TheRoyalTenenbaums''.

** 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. Or else.

* The UK version of ''TheApprentice'' has a SpinOff for 16/17 year olds, who tend to range from the [[MouthyKid annoyingly precocious]] to the adorably ambitious to the [[TeenGenius genuinely impressive.]]

* Rico from ''HannahMontana''.

* Zach was prone to this in early seasons of ''SavedByTheBell'', though he grew out of it as time went on.
* ''MagnumPI''

* Randy from ''TheWire'', who in one instance even continues to pass out campaign material even after getting paid.
* Deuce Martinez from ''ShakeItUp'', who sells everything from defective watches to counterfeit LadyGaga tickets.
* An episode of ''LawAndOrder'' has 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.

* Eddy from ''EdEddNEddy''.

* Hustler Kid from ''{{Recess}}''.
* PhineasAndFerb often cross into this territory- although it's often more of an InformedAbility, since they don't keep the money themselves.

* PhinesAndFerb often cross into this territory- although it's often more of an InformedAbility, since they don't keep the money themselves.

* 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.

* Malo, the huge fore-headed kid who looks like an infant from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' turns out to be a ruthless and savvy businessman when he takes over the shop in the Goron village.

* ArtemisFowl. Teenage billionaire evil genius. Learned everything he knows from his ruthless father, though as time goes by, both Fowl men are less on the evil end of the spectrum.

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

[[quoteright:156:[[{{Peanuts}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Lucy_Peanuts_5686.png]]]]

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* Manolito in ''{{Mafalda}}''.

* 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.

* The ''RichieRich'' movie (not so sure about the source material) has its eponymous character taking over the family corporation while his parents are missing and presumed dead (by everyone but him). He carries on with his dad's tradition of being the antimatter opposite of the CorruptCorporateExecutive.

** Subverted in one episode. 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.

* Cory from ''ThatsSoRaven'' and ''CoryInTheHouse''.

* ''{{Shadowrun}}''

* Malo, the huge fore-headed kid who looks like an 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.
* Recette Lemongrass of ''{{Recettear}}'' is forced to become this in order to settle her father's adventuring debts.

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

** 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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