Mos bows biography

While most teenagers spend their summers hanging out with friends or working part-time jobs, 17-year-old Moziah ‘Mo’ Bridges fills his time with business meetings in an effort to grow his bow tie-centric fashion startup, Mo’s Bows.

Since the Memphis, Tenn.-based company’s 2012 launch, Bridges (with help from his mother, Tramica Morris) has been featured in Oprah’s O magazine and Esquire, and snagged “Shark Tank” investor Daymond John as a mentor.

The precocious kid-preneur, who has sold about $200,000 worth of his bow ties so far, says he hopes to serve as an example to other young entrepreneurs and eventually turn his enterprise into a multimillion-dollar company.

He has also hired seven employees — including his mom, several seamstresses and a social media manager — making the all-important transition from a solo entrepreneur to a job creator.

While the company is officially listed under his mother’s name,