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vi, 296 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"As his parents watched their restaurant business collapse in the wake of the Great Recession, Michael Sayman was googling “how to code.” Within a year, he had launched an iPhone app that was raking in thousands of dollars a month, enough to keep his family afloat-and in America. Entirely self-taught, Sayman headed from high school straight into the professional world, and by the time he was seventeen, he was Facebook’s youngest employe ever, building new features that wowed its founder Mark Zuckerberg and are now being used by more than half a billion people every day. Sayman pushed Facebook to build its own version of Snapchat’s Stories and, as a result, engagement on the platform soared across all demographics. Millions of Gen Z and Millennials flocked to Facebook, and as teen engagement rose dramatically on Instagram and WhatsApp, Snapchat’s parent company suffered a billion-dollar loss in value. Three years later, Sayman jumped ship for Google. App Kid is the galvanizing story of a young Latino, not yet old enough to drink, who excelled in the cutthroat world of Silicon Valley and went on to become an inspiration to thousands of kids everywhere by following his own surprising, extraordinary path. In this candid and uplifting memoir, Sayman shares the highs and lows, the successes and failures, of his remarkable journey. His book is essential and affirming reading for anyone marching to the beat of their own drum." -- Amazon. |
| Contents |
The American Dream -- The Penguin Whisperer -- Growing Pains -- Stress Tests -- Up with 4 Snaps -- Now That I've Built It, Will They Come? -- Big in Peru -- Meeting Mark Zuckerberg -- Bye, Belen -- The Countdown Starts Now -- All Set? -- Shine or Fail -- Bitter/Sweet Independence -- Diversity Training -- Out on a Limb -- Gut Intuition -- Baby Code Monsters -- A "Surprise" Family Visit -- This Humbling Lifestage -- Serendipity -- Blond Ambition -- The Day of Seven Interviews -- Offer of a Lifetime -- I Kissed a Boy -- Twenty-one -- The Noogler -- That Christmas Feeling -- Unblocked -- Blue Eyes and Purple Flowers -- Diving Blind -- Adulting -- "Soy Gay" -- Area 120 -- Thankful. |
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Sayman, Michael, 1996-
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Computer programmers -- United States -- Biography.
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Hispanic Americans -- Biography.
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Smartphones -- Programming -- Anecdotes.
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Autobiographies.
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Anecdotes.
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| ISBN |
9780525656197 (hardcover) |
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0525656197 (hardcover) |
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