The Next Zuckerberg
April 13th, 2011 | by Jen |The Facebook application High School Memories lets people share recollections of their teenage years. It might surprise some users to learn that the app’s creator isn’t old enough for high school himself.
Cyrus Pishevar, a 13-year-old resident of Palo Alto, California, developed High School Memories after seeing how popular it was for his friends to “tag” photos of one another on the social network.
“The big idea is to make memories a social thing to do,” said Cyrus, who learned entrepreneurship from his dad, the founder of five startups. “When you type in your memories, it speaks more than just pictures can, especially when your friends help you through.”
Cyrus is part of Silicon Valley’s second generation of web innovators - teenagers who grew up with the internet and witnessed the rapid ascent of Facebook and other nearby companies.
“I was surrounded by tech everyday for so long that I gained a natural interest for it,” said Daniel Brusilovsky, an 18-year-old from San Mateo, California, whose upbringing by a software-manager father and Oracle (ORCL) veteran mother led him to found two startups before he was old enough to vote.