Teens Grateful to Old Apple Dude
In a recent poll of Americans ages 12 through 17, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was voted the well-known entrepreneur most admired from among a list of a half-dozen celebrity/businesspeople.
Youth organization Junior Achievement sponsored the survey of 1,000 U.S. tweens and teens, conducted in August.
Other choices on the list were daytime talk-show legend Oprah Winfrey, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, skateboarder Tony Hawk, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and fashion model Kimora Lee Simmons.
Junior Achievement says the list focused on celebrities who had started business enterprises themselves, as opposed to merely licensing their names and images to someone else’s products.
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