#37: The Journey of Summly
At just 15, Nick D’Aloisio founded Trimit, later known as Summly, revolutionizing text summaries from 140 characters to 1,000 words. He gained immediate success and became the youngest to attract venture capital funding.
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By 2013, D’Aloisio had sold Summly for a staggering $30 million, becoming a teenage millionaire. He didn’t stop there; in 2014, he unveiled Yahoo News Digest, a Summly successor that operated until its closure in 2017.