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Ben Casnocha, teenage entrepreneur, on his ping pong game (but also applicable to his business pursuits): "I plan on improving quite a bit in college. Right now I'm all muscle; I need more finesse. I need more spin in my game." [Ben Casnocha: The Blog]
Teenage entrepreneur Ben Casnocha experiences the death of a former classmate. Not someone he really knew, mind you, but close enough to provide conveniently timed talking points for his upcoming "intellectual salon" on death. [ben.casnocha.com]
invite-only
Peter Thiel's fabulous Fourth of July
So we hear that Peter Thiel, the former PayPal CEO turned venture capitalist, threw a really great Fourth of July party. Fabulous, even. Ben Casnocha, the teenage goth entrepreneur, attended, naturally, but it appears that our invitations were lost in the mail. A pity. For those lucky few who made the guest list, care to send in more reports?
ben casnocha
A teenage entrepreneur turns goth for a day
Most teenagers are convinced of their own immortality. But not Ben Casnocha, the famed teenage entrepreneur, book author, and ladies' man. A week from tomorrow, Casnocha is convening a salon to discuss a "'CEO approach' to dying." Never mind that Casnocha hasn't figured out a "CEO approach" to, say, actually doing business. I'm sure that he'll assemble a room full of graybeards who will listen raptly as he gives his thoughts on the hereafter — even though they're on much better speaking terms with the Grim Reaper than Casnocha. After the jump, the full invite. More »
"He's the Doogie Howser, MD of software startups, except for the fact that he probably has no idea who Doogie Howser is, given that the show went off the air when he was 4 years old, and, frankly, at age 4 he was probably too busy working on his second IPO to watch much television." [Joel on Software]
my startup life
An interview with author Ben Casnocha
NICK DOUGLAS — After my boss (and this site's editor) wrote a bitchy little post making fun of the author and self-described "very young CEO" Ben Casnocha for running a mere million-dollar business (Come on, he had six years to build it! Nevermind that in year 1, he was 12) he asked for a "rude" interview with Casnocha. Below, the author of "My Startup Life" explains why an inexperienced 19-year-old can teach "established businesspeople" basic principles and why Marc Benioff, the old-guard exec who wrote Casnocha's foreword, isn't as nasty as everyone says. More »
unfair ratios
Ben Casnocha, Sergey Brin, and the Amazon Women
Regarding entrepreteen Ben Casnocha's claim to have attended a party where he and Google founder Sergey Brin were the only two men in a room of 40 women, Heidi Rozen of Mobius Venture Capital wrote in to defend "Sergey's honor and Ben's veracity":while it is fun to see the speculation about Ben's post, I feel I must set the record straight, if only to defend Sergey's honor. The true story:But who are these power chicks, and what do they want with our menfolk? More »
Ellen Levy and I had an event at my house for a group of female friends and work associates of ours, we called the gathering 'power chicks of Silicon Valley' on our Evite.
disputed ratios
Ben Casnocha more cute than rich
At least when it comes to a Google cofounder. The wide-eyed 18-year-old entrepreneur and youthful wisdom-font says:Within four hours of landing in the Bay Area from Denver for a long weekend at home I found myself at a Silicon Valley party with 40 women and 2 men — Google co-founder Sergey Brin and me.Supposedly, the ladies wanted Brin for his money and Casnocha for his looks. Local sources doubt the veracity of this account, or at least doubt the 20:1 female:male ratio as unheard of in Silicon Valley. Show us the photos, Ben, or we're just going to assume you and Sergey were hanging out with a flock of trannies.
