15-Year-Old Sells Startup To ActiveState 140
jcasman writes "Some entrepreneurs wait a lifetime to experience the thrill of selling their startup companies. Daniil Kulchenko, a Seattle area high school student, accomplished that milestone at the age of 15. Kulchenko today announced that he's sold his startup, a cloud-based computing company known as Phenona, to Vancouver, B.C.-based ActiveState in a deal of undisclosed size."
Re:Heroku (Score:5, Informative)
So its Heroku for perl devs?
Apparently that's what it looks like... except it's a 15 year old who dun it. FTFA:
Your app is launched into a securely partitioned environment on a cloud server. All CPAN modules required by your app are installed. MySQL and memcached are automatically set up, and connection information is exposed to you via environmental variables. In front of your app sits a Varnish caching server, quietly improving the performance of your app.
More in the article, but that's already pretty amazing.
Re:the story here.... (Score:1, Informative)
Right, the only response acceptable is "wow, amazing". It's certainly not worth pushing the point that the kid next door to you with less accomplished and connected parents won't have any such opportunity.
Like this kid, I found an opportunity and exploited it at a young age, which I was able to make into a great and very fulfilling career. I didn't have the parents aspect, but I did benefit from rare fortunate circumstances that do not fall most teenagers who *do* have an interest or even a passion in something like this.
Nobody is discounting accomplishments here and it's ridiculous for you to assume so. Pointing out the obvious (which nobody needed to read the article to even conclude, based on prior history of such stories) does nothing to discount the kid. However, when do we get the stories about the other kids? Where are the stories of kids who somehow accomplish similarly cool things without the same benefits as those in every story I recall reading here and on HN over the years? Do they exist?