Have you guys ever had a 10 page article to read for class, and you forgot and now you only have 15 minutes before class. If you haven’t then well done but for most of you I am sure you have experienced this.

I read an article that was about a guy named Nick D’Aloisio, who created an incredible app at the age about 12. However, at the age of 9 he began using the software and computer to make apps and different things like that. I remeber at 9, I was no where close to a computer let alone coming up with incredible ideas for apps. He created an app that he called Trimit but is currently called Summly. This is an IOS app that takes long series of text and it will condense them for you to about 1000, 500, or 140 character summaries. Nick was just a kid that sensed a problem and was trying to find a solution. Nick got a lot of help in his journey when Apple featured Summly as on the the featured apps on the Store. He also received help when a Hong Kong based billionaire offered Nick $300,000 in venture capital to help him with his process. Nick used this money to basically start the app all over again and make it bigger and better. He wasn’t satisfied with where the app was and he wanted to see how he could make it better. He ended up changing the name of the app and eventually re-launching the app.  The craziest part of this whole story is that by the time he was 17, he had sold this app, for $30 million dollars to Yahoo. When you make something that Yahoo wants, you know you have made it somewhere.

This story is so cool to me because he saw a problem that a lot of us have experienced but haven’t recognized before. I remember having to read long articles for school and not having an adequate amount of time to do so. This app would have been vital to me and  I would definitely have spent money to have it condense the article for me in order to save time. Also it is crazy to me that he was able to create the software to make the app and design the app essentially all by himself. It shows a great level of innovation as well as dedication on his part.