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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He lives in Palo Alto. Half the people in his neighborhood/school have 1 or 2 programmer parents at big companies or startups, including founders with VC investment funding.

https://www.bizapedia.com/ca/rabbitsign-inc.html

His father is a veteran of Amazon and Google and a past VC-funded startup founder.

It's interesting that successful startup founders end up as regular employees at BigCos.

Unless he wants to go get a PhD, which he probably doesn't, he has no interest in college and colleges don't need him.

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Ding! Ding! I wondered this. The website is way too well done, and my husband (has worked at several FAANG companies and started his own tech business before that) asked who was paying to support all those free sign ups).

My kid is not that motivated (or we have not motivated her enough) but it would not have been very difficult for my husband to have helped her set up some kind of tech company and make it look like a big deal. I’m not saying that’s why this could wouldn’t get admitted. His coding was obviously extremely strong for his age. But the business stuff borders on the Varsity Blues kinds of scandals where you have to ask how much credit to give a kid whose father is in the BUSINESS of starting and funding tech companies. [/quote]

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