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In reply to the discussion: Just do it, says Yahoo's teen app millionaire [View all]redqueen
(115,103 posts)25. It is incredible that anyone could treat this story as anything but horatio alger idiocy.
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he created it while attended a top-ranked prep school (equivalent of). His dad's a morgan stanley
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#6
Which is why I said "Republican-ish". But your defense of Republicans is once again duly noted.
kestrel91316
Mar 2013
#4
when there's a $30 million paycheck, it often does. and i notice your boss owns your app, for
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#33
he had the capital and connections to make it work. as this kid does. class tells.
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#38
i can't speak to your friend's situation. maybe he liked being a camera assistant.
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#40
not saying you said it was a horatio alger story; saying these stories are usually presented as
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#42
his dad's a morgan stanley exec, his mother's a lawyer, and he went to our equivalent of a
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#7
It is all in the idea. The programming part is fairly easy. The tools are affordable, even free.
CBGLuthier
Mar 2013
#15
What if you don't have a good idea? What if you can't program in Objective C? Sucks to be us?
HughBeaumont
Mar 2013
#18
It is incredible that anyone could treat this story as anything but horatio alger idiocy.
redqueen
Mar 2013
#25
Smart kid. But I'm taken aback by the amount of miserable woe-is-me jealousy on display here.
Nye Bevan
Mar 2013
#44
SIGH . . . . what part of this is "woe-is-me jealousy"?? What part of this is untruthful?
HughBeaumont
Mar 2013
#45