A Beautiful Mind and Broken Body For Silicon Valley

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 27, 2013 @09:48AM from the making-lemonade dept.

pacopico writes "About 30 years ago, a young Marine and math savant named Ramona Pierson was out for a run when she got hit by a drunk driver and had her body shattered. As Businessweek reports, Pierson ended up in coma for 18 months, came out blind and emaciated and was sent to live in an old folks home. Her remarkable story takes off from there to include bike racing through Russia, a PhD in neuroscience, a stint fixing Seattle's public schools, and now Declara, a social network run by Pierson and funded by billioniare Peter Thiel, who put the original money into Facebook. One of the more original start-up tales to have ever come out of Silicon Valley or really anywhere."

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How did they manage that U.S. taxpayers would pay? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-27 11:21 · Score: -1, Troll

You forgot to mention that U.S. taxpayers would be paying for the security of Israel. There are only maybe 15 million Jews in the world. How did they manage to corrupt a nation of more than 300 million?