Michael Sayman: “The App Kid”, from high school drop-out to Facebook’s youngest employee

At 13, Michael Sayman had taught himself to code watching tutorials on the internet until successfully developing and launching a gaming app called “4 Snaps”. With this app he earned close to a million dollars and kept his family financially afloat after losing their business and foreclosing on their home during the economic recession. By 18, he had skipped graduation, to head to California hired by Mark Zuckerberg, as Facebook’s youngest employee and “Teen-in-Residence”. Within a few years he was listed in Forbes Magazine amongst their 30 under 30! Now at the ripe old age of 25 he is not only considered the “the most influential Latino in Silicon Valley”, he has also published his first book, “App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of The American Dream”, where he shares his coming of age story amongst the biggest tech giants in the world, while developing Instagram Stories and then being on the forefront of Artificial Intelligence at Google. There is simply no box that can contain his curiosity, nor fully describe the App kid! You just have to click, read, like and share this deeply personal and remarkable story that will reveal everything you ever wanted to know about social media, but were to scared or busy posting selfies to ask. (Hint: Nudes and dick pics really don’t delete! Ya tú sabes!)

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