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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."
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?
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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?
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