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13-Year-Old CEO Steals the Show At TiECON
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.
11-year old... shouldn't this be 'senior' VP of sales?
Hey, it takes a lot more than that to be a CEO.
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)
My personal rule of thumb is to not invest anthing in companies unless the CEO is at least old enough to buy me a Guinness.
~WBGG~ "And I'm so sad like a good book I can't put this Day Back a sorta fairytale with you" ~Tori Amos
Oblig. Futurama reference: Fry: That could be my beautiful soul sitting naked on her couch if I could just learn to play this stupid thing. [Bender stands up.] Bender: Oh, but you can. Though you may have to metaphorically make a "deal with the devil". And by "devil" I mean "Robot Devil". And by "metaphorically" I mean "get your coat".
"Sure there's porn and piracy on the Web but there's probably a downside too."
did the pedophiles banned from myspace come to slashdot?
With upper management so young, there might be some decent perks. Maybe snacktime, naps, and cartoon netwoork and console games in the breakrooms. (Naptime especially if the parents are overbearing.) I could always go for on the job naptime and ice cream Wednesdays at Coldstone.
*shrug* never worked for someone younger than me
~WBGG~ "And I'm so sad like a good book I can't put this Day Back a sorta fairytale with you" ~Tori Amos
I'm just worried that kids will start writing "Oxygen, +2 attack, +3 defence" on their test papers.
I'm looking for $100000 too. By plain logic I should do twice better. I have charts to prove it :P
:( ?
Where did you guys all go
Almost universally? So you've met, and/or have read available documentation on, almost all CEOs? Quite impressive. When do you sleep?
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Lousy Ferg-breath, always stealing the spotlight. I bet he made his sister program a goofy video game for his company too.
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
i guess i deserved that reading ...
... that this one doesn't throw chairs when he's frustrated.
It was a practical demonstration of why leaving school early is a bad idea.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
To make you feel like a loser for not having your own company by now. I say we kick his ass and take his lunch money. I might be in my 30's, but I'm not above beating up people who make me feel threatened and useless. You in?
So do you understand probability or do you not understand probability?
It isn't clear from your post.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
How will they teach gas laws?
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.
Mod parent down!
What he says, I saw it on TV. First you put a picture of you in a little box. Then, you need to find a dirt road crossroads, and bury the box in the middle. A demon will appear and give you around 10 years unless your day job is demon ass-kicking, in which case they could offer you a lot less.
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
No need for facts.
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?
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!
... he was supposed to make it to an earnings conference call but couldn't because he was stuffed in a locker.
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.
Nah, all you need to do is train Corporation Management to level 1, and about 1.5 million ISK. You'll want to train Anchoring as well if you want to recruit via storage container (like many corps do).
Finally somebody who thinks for the children
But there are other kids as well:
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.
Top 10 Reasons To Procrastinate
10.
Note that CEOs have to be Lawful Evil; you might want to kick some puppies to get your alignment into place. You do get some rather nice feats, though - for example Outsourcing and Improved Outsourcing with level 9 or Sociopathy with level 15. You also get a +(Level) AC bonus on all saving throws against common sense.
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