Nick D'Aloisio Quotes

Nick D'Aloisio — Australian Businessman born on November 01, 1995,

Nick D'Aloisio is an English computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the inventor of Summly, which is a summarization and artificial intelligence technology 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 $30 million US dollars making him one of the youngest self-made millionaires ever. 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. He is currently an undergraduate student at Hertford College, Oxford University, where he is studying Computer Science and Philosophy. During the summer of 2015, he was also the "Entrepreneur in Residence" at Airbnb... (wikipedia)

My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.

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.

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.

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

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.