Detroit native Rose Vitale was only seven years old when she started her first business, where she learned quickly how to turn a profit. “In second grade my dad would give me a quarter, and I would put it in the pencil machine and get two pencils — and then sell them and double my money,” says Vitale, now 43 and co-founder and managing partner of DRA Family Office, a single family office based in San Diego. “I’ve always had the desire to be an entrepreneur.” Read below for more.

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