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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What reports about this are failing to mention that Stanley Zhong’s father Nan Zhong is a software engineering manager at Google (I’m sure that helped Stanley get his job). Nan Zhong previously co-founded two startups, created the #1 ranked communication app on Android (featured by Fortune and Amazing Android Apps for Dummies), and raised $10 million in venture capital. Before that, he led the team that built AWS’s Elastic Load Balancing service.

Wanna place bets on how involved Daddy was on everything from the code and use of AWS architecture to the incorporation and promotion of “his son’s” startup? This is starting to smell like one of those winning science projects that looks so impressive and you can’t believe a student came up with and executed it…and then you find out the kid’s dad just happens to work for a company in the very industry the project is closely related to. I’m wondering now if all the rejections had something to do with computer science faculty at the various schools he applied to putting two and two together about who Stanley’s dad is, and suddenly instead of being impressive, Stanley’s main claim to fame of having a startup was looking like he got his daddy to do his homework for him and let him take the credit.[/quote]

haters gonna hate[/quote]

That’s exactly what many people back in the early 2010s said of the few voices who were skeptical of Elizabeth Holmes’ legitimacy. Americans are so besotted with the idea of the wunderkind that they lose all objectivity and critical thinking when they hear an “inspiring” story of an alleged wunderkind. It’s how we get the likes of Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried. Really, post-Varsity Blues scandal, anyone who looks at a story like this of a kid allegedly doing something like this who has a father with that background and isn’t at least somewhat suspicious, is a naive fool. [/quote]

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