13-Year-Old CEO Steals the Show At TiECON 259
An anonymous reader tells us about a 13-year old Silicon Valley CEO with a plan to change the way kids learn chemistry. Yesterday he stole the show at TiECON 2007, the big entrepreneur conference held in Santa Clara, CA. VentureBeat has the story and a video interview. The company's VP of sales is the CEO's sister. She's 11. They're looking for $100K to ramp up production and distribution.
Lack of experience (Score:5, Funny)
Re:13-Year-Old CEO (Score:5, Funny)
Specifically, it requires a deal with the devil. Trade in your soul and common sense for investor cash and lawyers. (It's not like the devil has a shortage of the latter)
Re:that dilbert comic about OS's comes to mind: (Score:4, Funny)
yeah whatever (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:that dilbert comic about OS's comes to mind: (Score:1, Funny)
wonder if they're hiring? (Score:5, Funny)
*shrug* never worked for someone younger than me
Re:Relevant? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm 26 (Score:5, Funny)
Where did you guys all go
Re:Idealism of youth disqualifies you as CEO (Score:3, Funny)
ferguson?? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:that dilbert comic about OS's comes to mind: (Score:3, Funny)
I hope ... (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Relevant? (Score:2, Funny)
It isn't clear from your post.
Re:Chemistry (Score:3, Funny)
I think kids already know about the gas laws:
(1) Whoever smelt it dealt it
(2) Whoever accused it abused it
(3) Whoever whines about "you guys being sooo immature" is doomed to grow up and have a bitter, loveless marriage.
Re:Cynicism of "/." qualifies you as a poster. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:13-Year-Old CEO (Score:3, Funny)
No, he's just a Marxist (Score:2, Funny)
Re:May I be the first to say (Score:3, Funny)
Well, then, let me be the first one to say:
AWW, that's so cute! He's adorable! Who's my little CEO? Who's my little CEO?
Nike! (Score:3, Funny)
It's gotta be Nike, and finally, thank god!
We can credit them with tearing down the corporate 'ceiling' for children. They used to be stuck only in sweatshops, but now.... well, now the sky's the limit.
Here's to you Nike!
Sadly, the company folded when... (Score:1, Funny)
His CFO had to report that the company had lost $5.35 when a bully stole its lunch money.
He was exposed for spending corporate funds on comic books and Big League Chew.
I could probably go on forever with these. The reality of this story is that venture capitalists are so desperate to turn anything into money that they apparently see no problem with trying to monetize an 8th grader.
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Think of the children (Score:2, Funny)
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12-year old Nigerian is a certified Java Programmer
12 year old programmer creates web browser
Pakistan's youngest certified Microsoft programmer - 9 years old
I wish I could say that becoming certified meant something, unfortunately thats not the case. At least for the MS certs, all you have to do is pass a few mulitple choice tests, and the transcenders and brain dumps have been around for ages. Just recently we hired an MCSD/DBA; my jaw about hit the floor when he asked me how to pass parameters to a console app. Unfortunately certs don't mean shit anymore.
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