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  PayPal’s founding team was six people.
  ...
  Four of them built bombs when they were
  in high school.
Surprised no one picked up on this (not that I could see anyway).

When we hear about a kid who got caught building a bomb these days we never think Wow - they'll make a great entrepreneur some day!

Maybe we should learn not to judge children too harshly?



Expanding on what you're saying, I think it's important to get people to curb the knee-jerk soccer mom reaction "OMG MY CHILD IS MAKING BOMBS" and find out if the child is making bombs because they have a serious psychological problem, or they're interested in science.

One child needs a therapist, one child needs a chemistry book.

Speaking as the child who made bombs, and got the chemistry book :)




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