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12 Year Old Gets $6.5M for Gaming Company
Bayscribe writes "A Silicon Valley company co-founded by a 12-year-old has just raised $6.5 million in venture capital. PlaySpan, based in Santa Clara, Calif. says it offers game publishers a technology that lets users make payments and shop for other items. It calls itself the first "publisher-sponsored in-game commerce network." Arjun Mehta, a 6th grader, says on his Web site that he is passionate about software that can make the game experience more "rewarding," and that he started the company last year in his garage. He paid for it from earnings made from selling online game items he won."
can you blame them?
We can all see you're so pissed off that a 12-years old kid can have this kind of money at his disposal while you, who think of yourself as a big computer genius, have to flip burgers at the local MacDonalds because your skills aren't so hot or required.
Does it hurt, loserboy? This must be the ultimate humiliation for you. It's one thing to be beaten up and have you face shit upon by kids of your age, but being dragged through the mud by a 12-years old kid!
Oh, the horror! Oh, the humiliation! "Why, oh why couldn't have been ME?" we hear you crying. But it is not so, fortune has not graced you. You are locked into a minimum wage job, which will be for life because you have no marketable skills whatsoever.
You bet all of it on computers, and it turned out there were a lot of people better than you. Plenty of choice. You are a nobody among thousands and thousands of geeks.
Cry, now. Cry, little nerd. Think of that kid out there who can have all of the things you will never have. Write rants and raves on Slashdot, your nostrils full of the smell of frying chips, which you will never be able to wash away.
How can you cope with it? Why do you keep on living? It's not getting any better. Have you considered suicide?
Fuck you too, sunshine. How many VCs have you met?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."