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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]
Watch the interview. [/quote]
Oh I did, watching him in his RabbitSign t-shirt promoting “his” startup, listening to everything he and his father said only reinforced the impression that this was all a bit of a put-on which AOs probably saw through, and now they’re milking the wunderkind/underdog story for media exposure. Why else would they have shared their story publicly? Why not just either happily go to one of the two very good schools that accepted him, or happily take the Google job and move on with his life?  “We just want transparency,” that’s total BS. They are smart enough to know the “transparency” to satisfy why he wasn’t selected would require showing them the applications of the people he lost out to which would violate the privacy protections in FERPA.[/quote]

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