This 14-year-old student entrepreneur began her intrepid moneymaking journey whilst still in attendance at a secondary school. Her journey truly was set into motion when a friend from school first introduced her to the concept of homemade slime. After their monumental interaction, Maddie Rae learned that the process of creating homemade slime requires glue, baking soda, and saline solution (although glitter and dyes can also be added for aesthetic purposes). This inspired Rae to make loads of slime of her own. The only issue with creating batches of her own slime was finding the right glue to successfully complete the mixture. Maddie Rae recalls needlessly needing spend many long hours sitting in a car waiting to arrive at a store just to find glue that could properly produce slime at the right viscosity. She knew there needed to be a better way, and thus she tinkered, with the assistance of her family, to create the perfect slime glue. Shortly thereafter, she began selling her product online via her own website. Later, she found difficulty in keeping any amount of her glue on hand given the high demand of the glue not corresponding with her relatively cheap costs.

Along with being the owner of a highly profitable company, Maddie Rae is also an affluent internet personality and a world record holder at just 14 years of age. She currently has roughly 160,000 followers on Instagram, and her net worth is roughly $5 million dollars. As an impressive feat, she went on to set the record for world’s largest slime blob, weighing in at an impressive 13,820 lbs. Her words of wisdom for young, aspiring entrepreneurs, much like herself, are “[b]e creative, innovate and inspire!”

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