Moziah Bridges, or Mo for short, saw a gap in the market when he just couldn’t find any bow ties that he liked. At aged 9, he decided to set up his own business.
The adorable 11-year-old has been designing and sewing his own ties since his grandma taught him, according to the Huffington Post.
“I really was a young dapper man and I couldn’t find any other bow ties that I really like,” Mo told Fox News. “So my grandma – my lovely grandma – she’s been sewing for over 80 years, or something crazy like that, so I wanted to start my own business making bow ties.”
Photo from NY Daily News
Mo chooses the design and materials for each bow tie himself, and the product has been doing amazingly well on his Etsy page. The youngster, to this point, has earned about $30,000 from his designs.
On top of that, he has begun to attract the attention of a lot of retail stores in the States which are listed on his site.
As if that wasn’t enough, this legend has created a product for charity called the Go Mo! Scholarship Bow Tie. All proceeds from the sales of this particular item go towards helping kids go to summer camp. “I feel like it’s good to help the community and that’s what I’m doing,” Mo said.
Bridges has huge plans for the future of the company, he hopes to add neck ties to his collection and would like to start a “cool kids clothing company that has nice blazers and pants.”
Mo also has his mother to thank for the success of the company: “She’s a hardworking mom, she knows what to do, when to tell me to start making bow ties or to stop. Not that she can tell me what to do. ‘Cause I’m the CEO.”
Pretty sure we were barely able to get dressed at 9, this guy is in a league of his own.
Hat tip to our brothers in JOE.ie for this one.
