The Modern Tech CEO: Barefoot and 21

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What an amazing story. My best part ...

By 12, Seth had gotten used to waking up at 3 a.m.

He started an online company called Giftopedia, a digital shopping list of sorts that automatically searched the internet for the world's best prices and made purchases for its users.

The only problem: Seth didn't really know how to write code for the site.

So, after searching the internet, reading up on outsourcing and talking with his parents, he hired workers in Russia and India to do the coding for him.

Because of the time difference, the preteen would wake up in the middle of the night to conduct online meetings with his employees. (This wasn't always enough: In one instance, Seth recalls abruptly leaving a middle school math class to take a business call on his laptop).

Seth always talked to his workers over IM or a shaky Skype voice connection.

He didn't want them to hear the little kid in his voice.

"You never let them know how old you are," he said.

All this at the age of ... 12 !!!

 

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