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I read another article about this acquisition that linked to this Gizmodo article from 2010 that was openly mocking him after naming his app "worst app of the week": http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...

Nice to see he got the last laugh. It's inspiring to think that his company went from a joke to some people to a $30MM acquisition in a little over 2 years.

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To be fair, it seems they mocked him for a reason. He dropped lines like this:

> now I'm going to have to go without food for the next month.

His dad works at Morgan Stanley and his mom's a lawyer. Sure...

No way! That's him? I remember that article from way back.

I guess the bottom line is that as long as you get the end goal the muck of how you got there is quickly forgotten.

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