"Less than a decade later, Ms. Evans was chief technology officer of the whole company" From a Janitor to CTO in under 10 years - I wish I could dream that. I

"Less than a decade later, Ms. Evans was chief technology officer of the whole company" From a Janitor to CTO in under 10 years - I wish I could dream that. I started playing with code around 6yo and now 33.. Could it be that it was really rare period of time where such thing was possible?