The 13-year-old girl CEO is Mai, a Japanese middle school student who invented a new type of earring.
Mai noticed that many of her friends wanted to wear earrings but were unable to get their ears pierced. She also realized that magnetic earrings often get lost easily. To solve this problem, she reinvented the earring, leading her to become one of the youngest CEOs in Japan. While the exact details of her reinvention are not provided, the key point is her innovative solution to a common problem has resulted in her entrepreneurial success.