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bbw_bk_cover072814_304.jpgDid you know that Burger King's newest CEO, Daniel Schwartz, is just 33 years old? In this week's Bloomberg Businessweek, we discover that the burger giant is run by children. Quote: These days... Burger King is behaving more like a startup than a typical burger chain. Jorge Paulo Lemann, [the parent company's] 74-year-old billionaire co-founder, likes to enlist young executives and put them in top positions at the firm's companies. 'Who says you have to be old to be good?'" [Bloomberg][Photo: Boru O'Brien O'Connell/Bloomberg Businessweek]