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Ticketleap VP of Product Beah Burger-Lenehan’s first business

When she was just barely in elementary school, Beah Burger-Lenehan was already flexing her negotiation skills.

Beah Burger-Lenehan and her father, who helped put her first entrepreneurial endeavor into motion. (Photo courtesy of Beah Burger-Lenehan)

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When she was just barely in elementary school, Beah Burger-Lenehan was already flexing her negotiation skills. The young Burger-Lenehan, now Ticketleap VP of Product, got her father to agree to a 50/50 split of profits for a business that, she’ll admit, he could have probably done on his own.

Here’s Burger-Lenehan on her first entrepreneurial endeavor:

It’s no Josh’s Juices, but when I was maybe 7 or 8 — so this is before the babysitting days — I struck a deal with my dad, a general contractor, to help him load his truck full of scrap metal and then unload it at a metal recycling center that paid by the pound. I couldn’t have been much help; I was a scrawny kid. But I got him to agree to a 50/50 split on the profits. I think I made close to $100 that first trip — which seemed like a fortune.

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