By
Nick Denton,
11:06 AM on Fri Jun 8 2007,
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The Examiner, the San Francisco freesheet, interviews Ben Casnocha, the 19-year-old "prodigy" who's just published his collected business wisdom.
It's a standard boy-wonder profile, marveling at the Comcate founder's youth, rehashing Casnocha's standard anecdotes, and ignoring the inconvenient fact that his venture is a mediocre and slow-growing service business. Standard, except for one thing: youthful founders are usually photographed doing something, well, youthful. (
Why don't you guys suck on a lollipop?) The Examiner breaks with standard procedure: Casnocha, in this picture, looks like a stuffy VP of business development at an offsite, and at least a decade older than he really is.