Elon Musk hired a 14-year-old boy (4 photos)

The teenager, by the way, in his youth had already graduated School of Engineering at Santa Clara University, becoming the youngest graduate in the history of the educational institution.





Elon Musk is actively hunting for young talented specialists. The other day he was invited to work in a space company SpaceX 14-year-old Kairan Kwazi - a message about this appeared in Los Angeles Times.

Santa Clara University Graduate Happy to Join the Starlink team, which he called "the coolest company on the planet." Kairan is especially impressed that SpaceX did not pay attention to him young age, but gave the opportunity to prove themselves as software engineer. Getting into this company was not easy. According to Kairan himself, before graduating from university, he applied for a huge number of vacancies, but received 95 refusals and only three proposals from which SpaceX chose. In other places, a clear hindrance for work was the age of the applicant.



The boy began to show bright intellectual abilities quite early. At two years old, he spoke in full sentences, in childhood garden amazed teachers and peers with the news that I heard on the radio - while other children still wore diapers and were only interested in primitive cartoons.





Kairan at the age of 9 on an internship at Intel Labs

At the age of nine, Quasi completed an internship at Intel Labs as Research Fellow artificial intelligence, by the age of 11 began to study mathematics and engineering at Santa Clara University.



Kairan with consultants from the University School of Engineering Santa Clara: Nam Ling (center) and Associate Professor Ahmed Amer (University Santa Clara)

Now while the teenager lives in California, but is already planning moving to the city of Redmond (Washington). Due to his age, he cannot live on his own for now, so he will go to a new place with his mother. By the way, Kairan absolutely does not regret that his childhood was not like that of ordinary boys. "I think my student years were the most happy years in my life because I had many freedom,” he said in a conversation with reporters.

The head of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has not yet commented. company's decision to appoint a software engineer 14 year old teenager. However, the businessman himself is a well-known workaholic and a proponent of working seven days a week who demands from his employees maximum return. Therefore, it is not surprising that he is looking for new young and ambitious employees who, at least for the first time, will plow not for fear, but for conscience.