UPCOMING: KALIEF ROLLINS IS A BUSINESS MAN IN THE MAKING
Kalief Rollins is a business man in the making. The 17-year-old entrepreneur recently won $10,000 in a OppenheimerFunds/NFTE Los Angeles Business Competition for his clothing line Phree Kountry, which consists of T-shirt designs that he and his brother Anthony created.
“We made the T-shirts to show positive messages of urban culture; (and to promote) leadership themes to try to encourage and remind youth where they come from, and what the people before them went through.”
Kalief says that he has always wanted to do business.
“All my life, everyone has told me I’m a businessman and an entrepreneur. I was always doing something to get money. I would sell stuff at school—candy, bracelets. My family is used to me always selling, and we were talking about that.”
Learn more about Kalief below:
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Kalief’s myspace
Email:PhreeKountry@yahoo.com
Black Enterprise’s coverage of Kalief
Photos:WhiteHouse
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Great entrepreneur !!!
we can find many intelligent youth but any encouragement.
Good luck
It is good to see any young black man trying to do something positive in their life. We need more young people like this in the world!! Congrats to him and hope to see more of this young man in the future….
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This is so exciting. It’s always a good thing to see people in our community marketing instead of always consuming. I wish him all the best. Will be looking for his line.
Good luck to him.
good luck dude, but um wat does that t shirt say?
Phree Kountry.
Are there postings or links of his clothing? I’m limited to certain things using my cell. Anyhow, I’m proud of this young man, and I wish him well!
I dont see anything special about his clothing line it looks the same as any other.
Special is “marketing” not consumming. And it is HIS line.
As he go along with his line he will get better. And, when do you even see a young man starting his own business. Not to often! So let uplifted and support are youth when that are doing something great. Coming from a 19 year old, that’s what we need.
I am very proud of this young man. I hope to hear more about him in the future. We need more free-thinking youth like him. All the success in the future Kalief.