Before I became aware the I wanted to pursue entrepreneurship, I assumed that entrepreneurs were individuals who were well aged and had much experience in the world. I could not have been more wrong. Meet Nick D’Aloisio, one of the youngest entrepreneurs to be successful at the age of 18, in the year 2014. D’Aloisio is the inventor of the program Summly; an app on Yahoo that takes a large amount of text and condenses it into a summary for users who are reading the news on their mobile devices. One of the many reasons D’Aloisio became such a success is he possessed assertiveness and passion that I believe is a huge key factor is making a difference. He became interested in coding at the age of 12 and the amount of knowledge and skills he obtained in six years demonstrates that all one needs to is the drive to make a difference.
What a fantastic idea! Being a millennial himself and as we know we love our information to be right there and quick. We don’t want to maybe sit and read if we can just get that information right away through a quick summary of what we really need to know, hence the decline in physical newspapers. This is playing to the dormancy idea. Something as simple as news resources and articles not really changing over the years and Nick D’Alosio saw that and created a change in the way our generation may be reading news articles on our phones, laptops, etc.
I wish I was interested in coding when I was 12. I wouldn’t have to worry about money.
Coding is a very interesting and applicable skill to have. D’Alosio’s version of summarizing information is useful in a world obsessed with efficiency. Most people want to get information as fast as they can with the least amount of effort possible. His recognition of the world’s obsession with efficiency, whether made knowingly or unknowingly, was vital to the success of his idea.
What a great idea to help fit the news into the rushed and hectic daily lives of people today.
This is very inspiring and just goes to show that you don’t have to come up with some big, crazy product idea to make something great and change the way things are. This is a great idea because it actually helps a lot of people, it is a fast and easy way to read articles and pull out important information. He is a very young, successful entrepreneur and innovator and I’m sure this isn’t the last time we will hear of Nick D’Aloisio.