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Nick D'Aloisio Biography

Nick D'Aloisio (born 1 November 1995) is an English computer programmer, philosopher and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the inventor of Summly, which is an automatic summarization algorithm, developed with SRI International. D'Aloisio has been recognised as the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at just 15 years of age. As of March 2013, Summly was sold to Yahoo for a reported US$30 million making him one of the youngest self-made millionaires. D'Aloisio was awarded "Innovator of the Year" in New York City by the Wall Street Journal for his work on Summly and at Yahoo. D'Aloisio was also included in TIME Magazine's 'Time 100' as one of the world's most influential teenagers, as well as being profiled in their "Secrets of Genius" Publication. Until October 2015, D'Aloisio led the critically acclaimed Yahoo News Digest, which launched at CES 2014 and won the 2014 Apple Design Award at WWDC for its technological and product excellence. During the summer of 2015, he was also the "Entrepreneur in Residence" at Airbnb. He is currently a student at Hertford College, Oxford University, where he is studying computer science and philosophy. In April 2017, D'Aloisio announced the publication of an academic paper in the peer-reviewed journal Philosophical Psychology (Routledge, Taylor & Francis) entitled "Imagery and Overflow: We See More Than We Report", and the presentation of a second paper at a conference held at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp. A third paper of his has been published in the peer-reviewed philosophy journal Ratio (Wiley-Blackwell), and a fourth paper received a revise and resubmit decision from the peer-reviewed psychology journal the Review of Philosophy and Psychology (Springer). D'Aloisio has also peer reviewed for the journals Consciousness and Cognition (Elsevier) and Synthese (Springer). According to the online publisher TechCrunch, D'Aloisio has also raised US$12 million of investment for a new venture that was founded in late 2015.

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I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U. K. company with a team.

Cold, Emailed, Invest, Iphone, July, Team

I’m a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.

Design, Girlfriend, Like, Spending Time, Time

I don't feel like a different person. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.

Come, Companies, Different, Motivation, Technology

There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.

Commit, Data, Mobile, Phones, Reading, Screen

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

Classic, Companies, Company, Internet, Opportunities, Opportunity

It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

Build, Products, Scales, User, Want, Yahoo

The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows whos behind the screen so you cant tell Im a 12-year-old.

Able, Content, Kids, Tell, Whos, Years

I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.

April, Google, Ideas, Information, Years

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

Errors, Failure, Fearless, Trial And Error, Way

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

Angel, Lucky, Money, Risk, Risks, Take

My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.

August, Begin, July, Level, Levels, Start

I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

Awesome, Come, Phones, Stories, Story, Would Be