Lani Lazzari is an American entrepreneur and businessperson, who is best known for founding the cosmetics company Simple Sugars, which she did when she was 11 years of age.

Early life

Lani Lazzari was born in

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, Pennsylvania to Gina Lazzari. and Donald Lazzari. She stated that she suffered from

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when she was a child. Lazzari completed her high school education at

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and was accepted at

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, but dropped out before attending. She was accepted into the

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in 2017.

Career

Lazzari had stated that she had strived to try to create a skin-care product to help cure her

after being unsatisfied with what the market had to offer. After finding her products worked, she then proceeded to start a small-business which she named "Simple Sugars in 2005. In 2013, Lazzari appeared on the American reality show ''

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'' where she sought an investor for Simple Sugars, a cosmetics company. She had

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demo the product during her presentation. One of the sharks,

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, made an offer at $100,000 for a 33 percent equity stake. Lazzari accepted the offer with Cuban. A year later, Lazzari appeared on ''Shark Tank'' once again for a business update. According to a report made by

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, as of 2018, Simple Sugars has grossed over $30,000,000.

References

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