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Seventeen year old Ben Towers started his
first company at the age of 11. He now has a
digital media agency called Towers Design,
a social media management company called
Social Marley and a number of other brands
that include a youth development business
and clothing. His first company now employs 15
people but on a self-employed basis as he is too
young to be allowed to employ people on PAYE.
Deciding to leave school after GCSEs he was
caught by the new rules that say he had to stay
in some form of education or apprenticeship
until he is 18. So he