Comments on: Seeking Contemporary Stories of Young People's Successes In Tech Sector

Question: Seeking Contemporary Stories of Young People's Successes In Tech Sector

banished — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:44:23 -0800

I liked reading this article about Collegehumor.com and this article about Delicious Monster. Any suggestions for any other great articles on what successes young people are having these days with respect to the tech sector? I'd prefer current articles to Jobs / Gates era stuff.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:14:31 -0800

The Mac rumor(?) website ThinkDifferent was created and is run by a Harvard freshman, still in his teens. LiveJournal, recently sold to SixApart, was created by a guy who is now around 22. WordPress, a strong contender in the blog software fight (IMO), is developed by a guy under 25.

By: ..ooOOoo....ooOOoo..

..ooOOoo....ooOOoo.. — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:29:03 -0800

Blake Ross, the teenager who helped create Firefox.

By: cali

cali — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:55:02 -0800

Bram Cohen, creator of Bittorrent.

By: cali

cali — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:00:05 -0800

Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp, Shoutcast and Gnutella.

By: anildash

anildash — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:52:23 -0800

Actually, Brad (who made LiveJournal) is a little older than that, but not by much. You can read about him here.

For that matter, Ben and Mena Trott, who founded Six Apart, aren't so old either... they're both 27, and there's some recent coverage of them for PC Mag's people of the year story.

By: gen

gen — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:00:58 -0800

I heard that Ben and Mena are on the cover of Fortune this month?!?!