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8 Over 80: America's Coolest Octogenarian (and Then Some!) Entrepreneurs

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8 Over 80: America's Coolest Octogenarian (and Then Some!) Entrepreneurs

Company: The Apple Organization
Location: North Miami Beach, Fla.
Year Founded: 1980
Employees: 21
Revenue: $2.5 million

When Apple founded The Apple Organization at age 57, she planned on working for about 10 years before retiring. Nearly three decades later, the 84-year-old CEO runs one of the hottest real estate-focused public-relations firms in the nation, earning a spot on the 2007 Inc. 5,000 list of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. She still puts in 40-hour workweeks -- and has no plans on slowing down.

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