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In general, I'm with you, but in this case, it's significant in my opinion. There's very few people who at 23 could even think of donating $1M, especially money they've earned on their own. Meanwhile it's fairly common to hear about some founder/CEO in general donate $1M. I think mentioning the age is just to highlight how great this guy is. Just saying "Kik founder" might take away from it.

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I guess. It just kindof sucks when you're younger, sometimes it feels like people are saying "Yeah, that's really cool...for a kid".

I really don't care that much, I was just curious if other people my age felt the same way.

I'm with you and do feel the same way for the most part. Just think that in this article specifically, it's in a good way.

I read it as "That's really cool ... and especially cool at such a young age". I'd say the age makes it a rarer and hence more newsworthy event.

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