Sometimes I don't get why people like to talk about what they did when they were young in our industry so much. You see stuff like : I started writing Basic wh

Sometimes I don't get why people like to talk about what they did when they were young in our industry so much. You see stuff like : I started writing Basic when I was 8 months old, and by the time I was 2, I was using interrupts to force a pipeline recache that would cause Pentium2 processors to execute 5 instructions in quasi parallel mode, so that I could do a realtime render of my backstreet boys collection... Another common thing is: Person in question started selling lemonade when he was 7 and by the time he was 8, he had 15 extra lemonade stands staffed by his friends... Almost without exception, when you read such bios of people, and those people write those bios by themselves, then they never amount to anything when they get older. Why am I saying this? Because the techcrunch synopsis about each of those enterprenuer is almost directly lifted from each of their websites. Click on their 'About' pages. Apart from Mark Bao of course, he's just a cool cat.