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He's not got a good reputation for communication: http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-developer-cry http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-

• ecdavis 14y ago
  So he's a teenager?
  • seivan 14y ago
    I was a teenager, I did no such thing. That's borderline depressing, given how much bullshit he is spewing out. He comes from money, and give talks about shutting down and how they will lose money.
    • ecdavis 14y ago
      We were all teenagers once and we all had different experiences. I'm sure we all did things when we were young that we now find mortally embarrassing. Unlike most of our embarrassing moments, D'Aloisio's happens to have been written up in a Gizmodo article.
  • ruswick 14y ago
    That is not "teenage" behavior. That is sociopathy. He outright lied to this reporter, then berated him with dozens of emails. Regular people, "teenagers" included, do not behave that way. (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.)
    • ecdavis 14y ago
      It's certainly not sociopathy. I can think of a number of reasons why he might have behaved that way and I've seen similar behavior from similar people in similar circumstances. 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.
• cbr 14y ago
  Two and a half years could mean a large of increase in maturity at that age.
  • kybernetyk 14y ago
    With 17? Hardly.
    • hmottestad 14y ago
      Wait til you are 60. Then you will start saying "With 25/30/35 hardly". 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.
      • kybernetyk 14y ago
        > Wait til you are 60. Then you will start saying "With 25/30/35 hardly". 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.
      • cake 14y ago
        I'm pretty sure that he is not the only person accountable for the sale. I would even guess that's it is far from it. He's backed up by many people as someone said in the comments. Can you actually sign any of these papers if you're a minor ?
      • adventured 14y ago
        There were apparently a lot of temporary dotcom gazillionaires that were temporarily very good at business circa 1999 too. 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).