The problem was losing them
The origin story published by Business News Daily is unusually concrete for a children's brand, because the problem it solves is one that anybody who has dressed a child's hair recognises. Goodwin's favourite barrettes slipped out of her hair over the course of a day, and once they slipped they were gone. She was seven years old when she and her mother noticed the pattern rather than simply replacing the clips again.
What they did next is the part that separates the story from ordinary household frustration. Instead of buying a different brand, they set out to design a different clip. The result carries its engineering in its name: the Double-Faced Double Snap Barrette, a clip with two faces and two snap closures rather than the single hinge that had been letting go.
From one product to a company
The clip became GaBBy Bows, and Goodwin holds the title of chief executive of the business that sells it. That is the formal position reported by Business News Daily, which lists her among fifteen companies founded by young entrepreneurs, and it is stated in the present tense rather than as a childhood anecdote.
A single-product company is a fragile thing, and the second act matters more than the first. Goodwin's was Confidence by GaBBy, a plant-based hair-care system described in the reporting as designed to make it easier for mothers to do their daughters' hair. The two lines address the same customer from two directions: the accessory that has to stay in, and the routine that puts it there.
What the design actually claims
Hair accessories are a category where the failure mode is silent. A clip does not break in front of the buyer; it simply is not there at the end of the school day, and the cost is absorbed a few pounds at a time. A product that fixes that is competing on retention rather than appearance, which is a harder thing to advertise and an easier thing to prove at home.
The published account does not include a technical specification, a patent number, or a date of filing. The record compiled for this page describes the barrette as patented; the Business News Daily write-up names the product and its design but does not reproduce any patent details. Both statements are set out here rather than merged into one.
What is documented — and what is not
The firm facts are the age at which the idea arrived, the mother-and-daughter design partnership, the name of the product, Goodwin's role as chief executive, and the existence of the second brand. All of them come from the same business-press profile, and none of them depend on a claim about the company's size.
Everything numerical is missing. No source in this record gives Goodwin's birth year, her current age, the year the company was founded, where it operates from, how much it sells, or whether it has taken outside investment. Searches for a net-worth figure will find estimates elsewhere; none of them is documented here, and none is repeated on this page.
Why child-founded brands are hard to verify
Companies started by children tend to be documented in the same two places: family-supplied interviews and business-press roundups of young founders. Neither produces the paperwork that follows an ordinary company — no filings are quoted, no revenue is audited in print, and the founder's age is usually the headline rather than the balance sheet.
That is why a page like this one stops where it does. The product, the problem it solves and the founder's role are on the record and can be repeated with confidence. The scale of the business is not, and inventing a figure for it would be the one error worth avoiding above all others.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rishi Shiv Prasanna | India | Winning the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar in 2023 at eight, for… | Age 0 |
| Cannan Huey-You | United States | Presenting research on a Milky Way gas cloud at the American Astronomical… | Age 11 |
| Ángela Olazarán Laureano | Mexico | An AI medical assistant built in Veracruz, designed to work where there is | Age 14 |
| Émer Hickey | Ireland | Co-winning the 2014 Google Science Fair grand prize | Age 16 |
| Gabby Goodwin | United States | Inventing the Double-Faced Double Snap Barrette at age 7 | — |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Invented the Double-Faced Double Snap Barrette at age 7 with her mother Rozalynn (Business News Daily)
- Listed as chief executive of the company built around the clip
- Founded a second line, Confidence by GaBBy, a plant-based hair-care system
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No published birth year, current age or location in these sources
- No patent number, filing date or revenue figure is documented
- No founding date for the company appears in the source used here
Questions people ask about Gabby Goodwin
What did Gabby Goodwin invent?
The Double-Faced Double Snap Barrette, a hair clip with two faces and two snaps, designed with her mother Rozalynn after her ordinary barrettes kept slipping out and getting lost.
How old was Gabby Goodwin when she invented it?
Seven, according to Business News Daily. No source in this record gives her birth year or her current age.
What is GaBBy Bows?
The brand built around the barrette. Goodwin is reported as the company's chief executive.
What is Confidence by GaBBy?
A plant-based hair-care system she founded in addition to the barrettes, described as designed to make it easier for mothers to do their daughters' hair.
What is Gabby Goodwin's net worth?
No source in this record states a net worth, a revenue figure or an investment total. Numbers circulating elsewhere are not documented here.
Is the barrette patented?
The record compiled for this page describes it as patented, but the Business News Daily profile does not give a patent number or filing date, so the detail is listed as unconfirmed.
Is Gabby Goodwin on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article was found for her. The source used here is a Business News Daily roundup of companies founded by young entrepreneurs.
Where is Gabby Goodwin now?
She is described in the present tense as the company's chief executive. No source in this record gives her location, her school or her current age.
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Sources
- 15 Companies Founded by Amazing Young Entrepreneurs — Business News Daily, 2025-09-29
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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