He's not got a good reputation for communication: http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...
He just sold a company at the age of 17 to a huge corporation for a truck load of money. Unless he's got loans up to his ears I reckon he must be a lot smarter at business than I am.
Most certainly I will laugh at my naive 30year old self. But that doesn't mean I'm not allowed to reflect about maturity levels of teenagers.
> He just sold a company at the age of 17 to a huge corporation for a truck load of money. Unless he's got loans up to his ears I reckon he must be a lot smarter at business than I am.
Well, I don't want to come off as a too negative but word is that his parents' money helped at least a little with generating Buzz. Now nothing against that - he used every possibility he had. But don't call yourself bad at business when you don't have that kind of resource available to you. With the right connections you can sell a bunch of photo filters for $1 billion nowadays. And without you have to work off your ass to become ramen profitable.
Can you actually sign any of these papers if you're a minor ?
Welcome back to the stock market being at all time highs again, with Yahoo's stock now back to the highest levels since the crash (nearly five years).
(I, as someone who is comparable in age to D'Aloisio, would never try this kind of shit, especially to someone affiliated with a major news organization; nor can I think of any of my peers who would. I honestly don't understand why people have such outrageous notions about how young people act, and have such permissive views about they ought to act. It doesn't matter how old he is, this sort of behavior is absurd.)
Your level of maturity is an asset which not everyone has at your age. The reason people are more permissive of poor behavior from young people is that they are still learning the ways of the world. Hopefully D'Aloisio learnt from this experience.