Student and the CEO: The Swift rise of a WWDC prodigyWere you this ambitious in high school?
Yashvardhan Mulki, student developer and WWDC attendee (left), and Ali Asaria, founder and CEO of Tulip (right), chatting during a mentoring session in Toronto.
When I asked Yashvardhan Mulki what he did on his iPhone for fun — in between a full slate of high school classes, after-school club memberships, and building iOS apps in his spare time — he told me he reads the news. "No games?" I asked him. "No," he said. He downloaded Mario Run and played it a bit, but spends what little free time he has in apps like Nuzzel and Google News brushing up on politics.
I was already pretty impressed with this young man, who taught himself Apple's Swift programming language at age 11 by watching YouTube videos, and published his first app, a Canadian elections assistant (under his father's name, because remember, he's only 15), in May. But this just sealed it for me — Yashvardhan, or Yash, as he prefers to be called, is going places.
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Student and the CEO: The Swift rise of a WWDC prodigy
