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This Humble Kid Made $30M at the Age of 17
A kid, who sold his ideas for millions (how?)
Uzman Ali
October 13, 2024 • Read time: under 6 minutes
Hey — it’s Ali in BotBox with another founder story.
Nick D’Aloisio was born and raised in London on November 1, 1995.
At the age of 15, Nick founded Summly, a news reading app. Summly quickly added:
500k+ users in a month
became the number-one news app in 25+ countries
The simple-looking news app got so big that in March 2013, Yahoo paid $30 million for the app.
But how this all started? Let’s get into his amazing founder story.