Business
Farrah Gray – From the inner city to Self-Made Millionaire
At 6 years old, he looked around his block in search of something that could be converted into a salable product, and settled on rocks…
Dr. Farah Gray
Farah Gray, rose out of Chicago’s rough South Side to become an entrepreneur by the age of 7 and millionaire by the age of 14. At the age of 21, he received an Honorary Doctorate degree of Humane Letters from Allen University. This was in recognition of his ingenious economic mind and distinguished commitment to the development of values such as leadership, integrity and scholarship. In his rise from poverty to national and international prominence as an entrepreneurial icon and pre-eminent power speaker, Dr. Gray has inspired millions around the world. By the age of 26, he had achieved more than many achieve in a lifetime.
Gray is the youngest person to have an office on Wall Street.
He began by painting and refashioning the rocks to make them into bookends and doorstops. He then moved on to homemade body lotions
Between the ages of 12 and 16, Gray founded and operated business ventures that included KIDZTEL pre-paid phone cards, the One Stop Mail Boxes and More franchise and The Teenscope “Youth AM/FM” interactive teen talk show, Gray was also Executive Producer of a comedy show on the Las Vegas Strip.
Gray’s sense of social responsibility motivated him to create the non-profit organization The Farrah Gray Foundation. Among other programs and initiatives, his foundation focuses on inner city community-based entrepreneurship education and provides scholarships and grant assistance for students from at-risk backgrounds to attend HBCU’s (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
