Pure Loyalty Electronic Device Storage provides mobile storage units for cell phones and serves NYC-area students at schools with metal detectors…
$1 per phone per day, 180 school days per year … cha-ching
So when it came time to apply to college, Tom just printed out a pile of code he wrote and sent it to colleges.
Stanford, Berkeley and everyone else summarily dismissed his application on technical grounds - he didn’t have a high school diploma.
MIT looked at his code and said, “we like it” - we accept you.
chris dixon