None of those questions really matter, its not like he's an athletic sports prospect that needs to be sized up for draft day.
Ultimately, I think being in the valley will be beneficial for him. Kid should finish high school first though.
Ultimately, I think being in the valley will be beneficial for him. Kid should finish high school first though.
Young, fresh talent - geniuses, really - drive so much innovation in the Valley. They constitute a new form of capital.
If you think it's not a draft, then what do you make of "talent acquisitions" of otherwise worthless startups?
Why does it matter if he was lucky, if he has hacker skills, can be a "social theorist"? You write as if you believe he's this millenia's greatest young thinker.
Or will he be a has-been by 2011? What does that even mean? Are you buying into media hype that badly?
What do you want him to do, drop everything he's developed and go study for pulse checks on whether or not he did the reading?
Don't get me wrong, I'm an academic and have great respect for the value of education, but the traditional system doesn't seem to have been much use for this guy and at this point the training wheels fell off a long time ago. You can't just expect him to go put them back on.