Rise of Adolescent CEO's
Brian Wong, Kiip
Age: 20
Wong runs the reward- network Kiip which raised more than $4 million from venture capitalists. He is well informed about the stories of the companies during the Dot com bust in year 2000. “I was 9 years old during the first internet boom”, said wong. He believes his age help him and other youthful entrepreneurs to be “limitless, a kind of destructive.”
According to many VC’s including Andressen, the entrepreneurs they fund at 18 or 19 will typically been practicing for many years learning coding at early age and finding many ways to sponsor their studies. “Most of them self –consciously mould themselves into an image of Mark Zuckerberg, who created computer games as a child and took graduate level courses in early teenage.