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13-Year-Old CEO, Highlight of TiECON

venturebeat.com — The buzz on the expo floor was about Silicon Valley gaming startup Elementeo and its precocious 13-year old founder and chief executive, Anshul Samar. Includes video of Anshul's elevator pitch.

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  • TheKidd, on 10/11/2007, -16/+72Brilliant idea..............this kid's definitely going to get funded, I have no doubt.
    • tom6a, on 10/11/2007, -20/+47It sounds like a good idea.

      "Here’s how the game works: You command an army of chemical elements, compounds and catalysts — represented within a 66-card deck (the fire and brimstone card at left is for “Sulfur,” for example). Your opponent has his own deck with the same number of cards. Your goal is to battle your competitor and reduce his IQ down to zero. Pit your oxygen card against your opponent’s iron card, for example, and you learn that you create rust. Score one for oxygen. Kind of like rock-paper-scissors, but with chemicals, dice and 66 impressively illustrated cards featuring monster-themed caricatures of chemicals."

      According to the article "he won’t start shipping product until he either receives his first 2,500 orders, or he closes a decent round of funding, whichever comes first." He has 450 so far. Let's help him out Digg! I don't see a way to order on his website here: http://www.elementeo.com/ but it looks like you can preorder by sending an email to preorder@elementeo.com Not sure what the cost is.

      I think that after this gets dugg they are going to wish they were not taking all their orders via email.
    • Samus, on 10/11/2007, -67/+41was it just me, or did anyone else want to punch this kid hard in the face?
    • h4mx0r, on 10/11/2007, -39/+20@samus

      I think it's the lisp.

      It's getting hard to type with my hands clenched into fists. >:X
    • twertyto, on 10/11/2007, -37/+17@samus

      It's just you.
    • superal1394, on 10/11/2007, -7/+170@thekidd: This will fail. As a teenager taking chemistry, I know for a fact that this will explode for a week, then crash worse than the ultimate sugar high. Schools will jump on anything to make learning "fun," but what it boils down to is if the teacher sucks, the class is boring, and no one learns.

      My teacher sucks, so she tries to use all of these little props and stuff, but no one gets any of it still. I end up resorting to Wikipedia, and reading it out there.

      The answer to better education is good teachers, not toys and card games.
    • Raian, on 10/11/2007, -26/+7I WILL CRUSH HIM!
    • quomen, on 10/11/2007, -32/+17He is indian.
    • SillyRabbits, on 10/11/2007, -5/+52He wants 100k, yet he can't even sign a legally binding contract for another 5 years? A 13 year old as an official CEO might be a nice gimmick, but it's pretty silly from the bureaucratic stance in the business world. I think the days of VCs throwing money at any and every idea has passed for a while.
    • macbwizard, on 10/11/2007, -5/+32It's a good idea though I hope he has hired the appropriate people to help him. At 13 years old, I doubt he's had any substantive chemistry or physics.
    • newstart, on 10/11/2007, -11/+23Soon Bill Gates gonna call him and say:

      "I will either buy you or enter your domain and crush you. Your choice!"
    • wes00mertes, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13@macbwizard:

      I doubt his card game is going to deal with any extensive physics or chemistry. The elements are cartoon monsters...
    • newstart, on 10/11/2007, -26/+5Bill Gates calls up the 13 Year Old Entrepreneur.....

      Bill Gates : "I will either buy you out, or enter your domain and crush you!"
      13 Year Old: "You said the same thing to AOL in 1990s but it survived"
      Bill Gates: "Then, I will include a bad copy of your product with Vista SP1"
      13 Year Old: "By the time Vista SP1, 90GB in size releases, people would have switch to Linux or Mac anyway!"
      Bill Gates: "{sigh}......hangs up the phone"
    • Jerim, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9We play games to have fun, not to learn. If you have played any "edutainment" titles, you realize that all the education makes the game boring. No one likes having to learn while they play. Games like "Math Blaster" and "Oregon Trail" were a hit for a while, but eventually were abandoned. This idea is nothing new, it has been tried before, and it didn't work. Can this kid make it work? I don't know, but I doubt it.
    • skyfire1, on 10/11/2007, -15/+9It's Mohinder Suresh!
    • zakangelle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+96Starcraft 2 is better.
    • phmfthacim, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7this might be cool if everyone was into role playing card games, and zakangelle speaks hard truths
    • speerross, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5@superal1394

      I doubt it will fail from a business point of view, the funding will likely come and schools and parents will snap this up in a hurry as the new "cool" way to learn. It will fail in its aim to make learning fun. Games at school have always just made me non-attentive (i.e made it a doss lesson), because quite frankly in my spare time I don't play role playing card games so why would I find it fun in school? Sure some people do, but its a niche minority. This is just another gimmick and fad, it will sell at first then die out. The Education system itself needs a proper and complete overhaul, the school and exam system is counter-productive to learning things you want to learn and it stifles creativity and free thought (whether that is the intent, I really don't know). Card games won't solve the problem of boring classes.
    • catalysis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8"Games like "Math Blaster" and "Oregon Trail" were a hit for a while, but eventually were abandoned."

      Ah, memories. I'm not sure how those programs were judged to be a failure, because they seemed pretty effective to me. The difference I see here is that this game is competitive, and competition seems to be a very good motivator. Think of the endless hours people spend learning every crevice of a FPS map.

      On the plus side, being a chemist, I will totally pwn all you n00bs. :)
    • timo1023, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11If only Pokemon had implemented this, I would know the periodic table like the back of my hand.
    • saralk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11The ironic thing is that the people who would be bothered to learn how to play the game probably don't need help learning.
    • HMTKSteve, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19Hold on while I play the lethal Di-hydrogen-Monoxide card!!!!
    • spootmonkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20So then you JUMP to a conclusion on the mat...its brilliant.
    • birkoph, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2So he took magic cards and replaced the images with ***** from the periodic table, and now he wants a million to mass product them

      ... dream on kid.

    • AriaStar, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Funding? In all likelihood, probably not. With kids running the company, unable to sign legal contracts, and kids just being fickle and losing interest easily, it's hard to see the longevity. Just because some kids understand chemistry does not mean that they understand the complicated worlds of business, patenting, etc.. They'll need a business plan before they stand much chance at funding. No VC in his or her right mind will invest without a solid plan.

      Kids are always coming up with bright ideas then lose interest after a year or two. This kid just happens to be in this area, where kids can get a few hundred in seed money. I've seen many great ideas come from kids that they love interest in. This will get some attention due to the kid's age, then fizzle out.

      Bill Gates was a young adult who dropped out of college, not high school. There's a huge difference between jr. high kids and an elementary school girl (the sister), and a college drop out.

      The best they can realistically hope for is that a company or two tosses a thousand their way with a chuckle at the cute kids playing grown-ups. Then they'll fade into oblivion, their 15 minutes in the spotlight not even a distant memory in the land of a million brilliant ideas per day.
    • vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3At last, a big glimmer of hope for the U.S. of A.! Here we have a CEO with no stock scandal, no accounting irregularities, and no connection with front-page stories about wild parties, political ambitions for 2007 and 2008; he's straightforward, wants to see science education made more interesting and fun, confident, actually has a concept that is more than vaporware, and just needs some VC (or angel investor) pocket change to get it going -- something must be right in this country, or more accurately, his parents are doing things right. OK, who's going to be the first to invite him and his parents to join Digg.com?

      It's my privilege and honor to say. . .

      I, for one, welcome our young CEO overlords.


    • r0b1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Bah. Precocious is not the word I'm thinking of. It's a good idea, but it should be handed off to someone who would actually has some business experience and would know how to sell the thing, and the kid would make some money off of it since it's his idea. Good for him I say.

      You think these VC guys are going to sit and listen to some 13-year old kid pitch this? No ***** way.
    • Salgat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I'd play it just for fun.
    • bergur1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@sillyrabbits

      Although you are somewhat correct, a minor lacking capacity CAN make enforceable contracts if he/she is the CEO/Assignee or if duties are delegated to him/her. I am trying to find a good source but I can't find it. The only place I found this was in my schools business law book from the 1990's.
    • OBKenobi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3[quote]Soon Bill Gates gonna call him and say:

      "I will either buy you or enter your domain and crush you. Your choice!"[/quote]

      No, he'll have Microsoft come up with products to "make learning fun." But what they come up with will only succeed in making kids ***** and vomit all over themselves.

      They'll come up with cards printing using those proprietary MS color barcodes, and you'll need a special card reader running Silverlight, .NET, and DX11 to read them. The cards will cost $45, the reader will cost $500. MS will sell the whole thing to schools for an educational discount *IF* they agree to purchase MS Office and convert their network to Windows domains.

      Needless to say, the reader will have severe bugs.
  • TheDigerati, on 10/11/2007, -14/+43I was impressed. I expected something a little more mediocre. Schools should definitely implement alternative learning methods such as this.
    • GawtMilk, on 10/11/2007, -5/+72I say that public schools should just let students use the internet during class.

      i'm in ur classroom, lurnin about sodium tetraborate pentahydrate porn
    • superal1394, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26orrrrr schools could be given the power to fire teachers with tenure when it is show they suck and get better teachers who actually care and teach
    • dhumbert, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3teachers in public lower-education schools in the u.s. do not get tenure. they can always be fired for any reason.
    • turpenine, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I think the teachers unions are indeed bogus, if you show you are a good teacher for either 5 or 10 (depending on contract) years they cannot fire you after that (based on teaching ability). So what is to motivate you?
    • speerross, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1@superal1394

      Yeah good luck finding enough decent teachers to teach an entire generation. The saying holds true today - If you can, Do, If you can't, Teach. Hence why our talent is out in the business world or hopefully (the best place for it) lecturing and researching in Universities and Research Establishments. This leaves a few passionate, intelligent teachers and a ***** of boring stupid ones who loathe what their life has become.
    • mille716, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1"orrrrr schools could be given the power to fire teachers with tenure when it is show they suck and get better teachers who actually care and teach"

      - The teacher that taught you to write should definitely be fired. Seriously, "when it is show they suck"?

      "I think the teachers unions are indeed bogus, if you show you are a good teacher for either 5 or 10 (depending on contract) years they cannot fire you after that (based on teaching ability). So what is to motivate you?"

      - Believe it or not but most teachers are actually motivated from helping students, not keeping their jobs. Same goes for the "those who can, do. Those who can't, teach" *****. I know it must be hard to believe that there are people alive who are driven by something other than money.

      I know I'll get dugg down for this but here it goes anyway. Give teachers your respect. They get sign up for a job fully knowing they'll be paid ***** and be unappreciated. They then spend 8 hours a day trying to get six groups of 30 teenagers to focus on learning something most don't even want to know. Then they have to spend a few hours grading and preparing for the next day.

      Face it, most people who ***** on teachers were the same kids shooting spitballs in the back of class. They didn't learn ***** in school and now rather than just taking responsibility for it, they want to project the blame on "bad teaching".
  • Anonymous3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Finally, someone putting a (C?)CG to good use.
    I summon... BUCKYBALL
  • Gimpishi, on 10/11/2007, -5/+10They use a googlepages layout. Instant bonus points just for that. I just finished highschool chemistry. It wasn't too tough, but to have had a card game study system i might have made a higher grade.
  • SwissCamel, on 10/11/2007, -73/+16My son could beat the ***** out of this little punk.
    • mindstyle1, on 10/11/2007, -12/+84Your son will be working for this little punk... in other words, he'll be his bitch!
    • meanteen, on 10/11/2007, -2/+39Yeah.... I bet little Swissy Camel Junior mus be furious
    • SwissCamel, on 10/11/2007, -27/+4Joke is on you, my son has a terminal illness and will be dead by the time he is 16, meaning he will never enter the world of work. HA!
    • neoknight, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21@swisscamel

      As a father myself, You shame me.

      How can you talk about your kid like that!
    • PJBonoVox, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3@SwissCamel

      I hope I can ***** on his rotting corpse when he's dead.

      I get the feeling you don't actually have a son...
    • Blandyman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8@swisscamel

      Your mother was right... you ARE a failure!
    • khyberkitsune, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Wow, the camels are out spitting again, I see.
  • loganhid, on 10/11/2007, -5/+65So basically its 'Yu-Gi-Oh'

    • LopsidedZebra, on 10/11/2007, -6/+36D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DUEL!
    • calabria, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32I see what you did there!
    • titlesaysitall, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15I summon my Blue Eyes White Dragon!
    • TheTjalian, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Yugi, you fell right into my trap card!
    • tdawson2012, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1You mean "Magic the Gathering."

    • chrislee149, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Yeah, except spells like "Polymerization" might finally make sense.
  • AJMuni, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20Great idea...is it me or does he remind you of a darker ralfy from the simpsons?
  • nhprm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5What a prescient young kiddo!
  • moocow1452, on 10/11/2007, -0/+89Potassium, I choose you!
    • neptunebk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21I summon Uranium level 56 with 5 hydrogen power ups and destroy your deck.

      o
    • Celeron, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I attack you with lightning strike from Fluoride.
    • superal1394, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24I am activating an uncontrolled nuclear reaction by firing neutrons at your refined plutonium stockpile, your entire stockpile is incinerated, and all of your infrastructure has been destroyed. I win.
    • cien750hp, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9not before i suffocate you with my HOLOGRAPHIC carbon monoxide bitch!
      mwahahahahahaha
  • xxTazxx, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17I like the idea that he's come up with a great idea and has the guts to take it forward...but anyone else think he might be sacrificing his childhood a bit too much? Granted he might end up being filthy rich...but still you never get your youth back, and wait-for-it...money isn't everything.
    • nhprm, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33But, poverty certainly doesn't buy happiness
    • ScottMaximus1, on 10/11/2007, -10/+9Neither does being on Forbes 500 when you should be at prom.
    • neutrino15, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3yes it is
    • GawtMilk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Not many people on the Forbes 500 got that way through selling education-based card games.
    • Mapeki, on 10/11/2007, -11/+9You've got it all wrong, a childhood is worthless and money is everything. You sir, yes I mean specifically you, is what is wrong with our society.
    • Atomic1fire, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11If he gets filthy rich He could just buy his prom date
      and host prom at his mansion
      and sue the pants off the bullys for pain and suffering
      and have the legal advisor's to prove it
    • superal1394, on 10/11/2007, -11/+7and he'll end up worse than gates; unable to take a joke, socially awkward, and filthy ***** rich.

      Its a god damn miracle he hasn't brought Microsoft down with his absolute lack of social skill.
    • Le3f, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16He's obviously having fun with it. How is that sacrificing childhood?
  • sonycam, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16The kid is bright but I don't see how it's going to generate $1m revenue from $100k and supposedly be 'selling throughout the world' as it doesn't look like he's sold a single deck.
    • DyDx, on 10/11/2007, -14/+6So.. you apparently have no ***** clue how business works.
    • omarC, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I wonder what the pricing on this game is. He states "400 orders in 90 minutes" in an YouTube interview, so presuming $60 to $90 per order $1m wouldn't require many decks to be sold. However, the quality on cards is rather sheepish and the game probably contains no substance (or element?).

    • jhuebel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6We homeschool our kids. This looks like a fun way to teach chemistry. I just emailed them asking for more information. Basically, the kid's getting the word out early, which is a great idea. He's got a good chance of being successful.

      One thing he should try though is to get on QVC or HSN. This game will sell like crazy to that demographic (bored housewives).
  • Jasio, on 10/11/2007, -7/+4The idea's alright.. but do you really think he did it all by himself?.. Meh.. Doesn't change anything for me, chemistry isn't hard.
    • fenixconnektion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14What parents will do to get their kid into an Ivy League institution these days...

      from book reports and dioramas to setting up million-dollar startups. That's the 21st century for you.
    • DyDx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Is it hard to believe that he came up with the idea himself? It's not exactly a difficult concept. The article also discusses how his sister and friends are helping him. These kids are definitely going places.
  • tonich03, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2813 and already working in a company. Poor kid...
    • Rhatz, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19yes and if he is very successful he can retire at 20
  • Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Except he had to get a grown up to sign the contracts for him?
  • Rhatz, on 10/11/2007, -8/+4If you want to know the future ask a kid
  • neutrino15, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19Congrats, you invented a game...... Sell it to hasbro or something......
    • chicagobiker, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Or wait for the DMCA C&D letter from the lawyers for infringing on a patent from Hasbro, Milton/Bradley, Mattel or anyone else who's Intelectual Property this mimics.
  • Light11, on 10/11/2007, -4/+40yeah this might be cool for 3 kids in a class but the rest of the class will just sit there and go.. wow u guys are lame.
    • DyDx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18You must have never been a kid, because I'm quite sure that if kids were given the choice of learning chemistry with a book or with a competitive card game (that actually looks quite fun -- you can check out some of the cards on their website, as well as more of the rules), they'd pick the card game every time. I can definitely see this game and similar games being used as a reward in classrooms for good behavior. Just imagine -- "OK everyone, if you listen to me talk about this boring ***** for 30 minutes you can spend the last 20 minutes of class playing a card game." It's a game -- no matter what the game is about, it's still a game -- and kids will always pick games over what they consider to be boring, old fashioned "learning."
    • speerross, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4No, seriously, youre wrong lol. I assume this game would be aimed at 12-16 year olds which is the age group I just passed through. The majority of people in my school would have considered this both lame AND boring. I'd rather learn from a textbook as much as I'd rather not do that
    • mille716, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is a great idea for someone as young as him but there is unfortunately no way in hell you're going to get a class full of teenagers to play this thing. No chance.
  • Macuyiko, on 10/11/2007, -8/+7'We inject fun into education. We have created a chemistry card game that teaches kids' blah blabla.
  • tektalk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Great kid! Don't get cocky.
  • pagancollective, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15It would be so awkward being fired by him. Or being at one of his board meetings, for that matter.
    • Atomic1fire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I can see the jokes about this kids life now
    • m2313, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4It would be weird if he got in a sex scandal and was taken to court for untern relationships. Especially when the "victimized young intern" is twice his size.

    • skyfire1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2M2313, the FBI is knocking on your door.
  • cyrusdh, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Well, I think the idea behind this game is great and I am all for alternative methods to educate in our public school system. Considering the United States is ranked (27th) or somewhere around their, implementing something like this might not be a bad idea. And this is pretty impressive for a 13 year old but it is also very apparent that the company is managed and ran by a 13 year old. The website is rather weak and I located several errors on it and his ordering system is archaic. Also, this kid might be trying to grow up too fast. Its kind of like the phenomena with child stars, they grow up too fast and encounter numerous social issues as they age, so for this kids sake I hope he is still being a kid and not growing up too fast.
    • mille716, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think this will at best be used as somewhat of a "extra help" tool for kids after school. I'm all for teaching in alternative ways but I don't think the reason US students are 27th in science is because they don't get taught alternative methods. There is just a huge gap in how students value education among countries. I don't think Japanese kids are excelling because they are taught in completely different ways. They just go home and study for four hours as compared to us who just go home and watch tv.
  • Satanael, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25You know the game is over as soon as someone draws Enriched Plutonium.
  • m2313, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1intern* sorry about the u
  • HanSolo69, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7He would be a lot more successful with a name like Yu-Gi-Oh Super Happy Fun Chemistry Ultimate X Strike Force Educate Robot Fighting Monster Squad. maybe he'll hire me on to help with marketing...
  • zmigliozzi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3chemistry Pokemon lol
    • OrlyonokEaglet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6So basically you can learn that oxygen owns iron, if the rest of the game is like that then it doesn't have much to do with chemistry, just a card game.
  • alanmanquero, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2chemistry sucks!
    • jhuebel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6geology rocks!

      (OT, I know, but I couldn't help myself. The pun consumed me.)
  • MattLee09, on 10/11/2007, -9/+7It seems most of the commentors on this topic are 30+ years old, and think that they, much like the U.S. Dept. of Education thinks, knows exactly how to get kids involved in education. As a 16 year old Sophomore in HS, I don't see this game being very successful at all, for a few reasons.

    1. Kids in the US schooling system aren't "dumb", they just really don't care about school. In many cases, it's not even the childs fault. They are too pre-occupied with getting a job to support themselves and purchase a car, or/and following in their dead-beat parents footsteps.

    2. The truly smart kids, who many would theorize as using this game the most to study the periodic table with, use the internet. It's a "free" resource that can be used to study, apply, and develop connections throughout various different subjects. Heck, it wasn't a week ago I saw a topic on Digg about different memory techniques that could be used to memorize the Periodic table and whatnot.

    I have seen kids who really do struggle to learn in school, and they put forth the utmost effort in each class but still come out with a mid B/ B+. I haven't seen someone actually TRY in class and make a C. C's are reserved for those slackers that turn in all of their papers late at the end of each semester just to pass on to the next grade in order to ultimately get out of school and pursue a minimum wage job.

    Except for a few, America is breeding the top C- students who will go on to take out combined trillions in loans for college because "Everyone needs to go to college!", flunk-out, and live the rest of their lives in trailer-parks.

    • neutrino15, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2dude, I am in HS too.. You are just retarded.. We ALL think that the current curriculum sucks balls.. NONE of us think that we KNOW how to educate kids except for that 13 years old in the story... And he might even be wrong about that. I don't wanna play that game...
    • mille716, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@mattlee09
      I don't know why you're being dugg down for your comment. It was insightful and correct.

      People always want to say the reason kids don't succeed in the U.S. is the curriculumn, the teachers, the books, anything but actually the kids themselves. Kids in other countries aren't kicking our asses in math and science because they are taught in wildly different and engaging ways. They're kicking our asses because the kids want to know the information, they pay attention in class and study for hours when they get home.

      I say this as someone who was always a C student in science. I didn't study as hard as I should have but I'm not going to have the audacity to blame my science teachers for not inspiring me enough.

      This article from USA Today backs up what we're saying.
      http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-03-07-forum-students_x.htm
  • thatsbologna, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4stfu wikiman
  • Jenga, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I don't honestly believe that any school will pick this up. Not that it's a bad idea... just that it falls more in line with flash games than with actual teaching tools. This is the kind of thing that should be freely available on some university website.
  • jellygraph, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4oh, look... a 13 year old and his science project
    • newstart, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11oh look a nerd who likes eating jelly while looking at graphs
  • LoneCrow, on 10/11/2007, -9/+5/clap for creating a company at all. I'm 13 and I know I'd rather play a card game instead of reading textbooks. Bury me if you want but I kind of relate to kids like them and if they're like me at all, they probably get bullied in school a lot and the fact that some of you guys are bragging about how you want to "punch that kid in the face" and how your "son could beat the ***** of this little punk" just makes you a dick. Bury me if you want but the fact is: That talk makes you an *****. End o' story *****-heads.
    • newstart, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4LoneCrow, you are wasting your time here, look at other 13 year olds, creating companies and stuff.... shame on u...

      *Inferiority complex follows for lonecrow.......*
  • bloodmoney, on 10/11/2007, -10/+5All the people on this thread who are bashing this kid = ***** with nothing to contribute of their own. It's a good idea. Let the the kid have some glory. Shut the ***** up.
  • MattLee09, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1The truth of the matter is, when this kid gets into highschool he will be more and more thankful to have a textbook and the internet than playing a card game like this (Be the game actually good and worth something or bad) with his idiotic classmates who care for nothing other than poon and drugs.
  • newstart, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12He is an Indian! Those guys are brilliant!
    • OBKenobi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1There's 1+ billion of them. I should hope that at least a few million have stopped worshipping monkey gods and running around in diapers.
  • nnoob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2 Better than Brad Burns.
  • bonlebon, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16You understand these facts don't you:

    1- The "KID" front is just a way to call for attention.
    2- The gaming market is Hyper-saturated.
    3- This is the internet.
    4- If education was funny, the MIT's main building would be a Circus's tent.
    5- Educational games went the way of the Dodo.
    • Fimus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2As an MIT student, I must say that if we had a building like that, it would instantly be hacked to shame.
  • pauliusuza, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Hey, let me close this sale and lets go play hide and seek
  • kaskong, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I didn't think the kid was especially articulate or precocious. it's just a tool to grab attention. and the idea isn't really that good.
  • StockOption, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Tiecon was the name of my EverQuest character.

    How dare he defile his memory in this way :(
  • BUrgy, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1Wow very smart kid, I have a feeling this kid is going to be a multi-millionaire when he grows up.
  • TheNik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20A 13 year old can't sign a legally binding contract - how is he a CEO?
    • autodata, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Indeed. Using the "CEO" title in this situation is not even as justified as someone who owns a local dry cleaner or coffee shop calling himself a "CEO." Then again, he's just a little kid, so if he wants to play dress up, then more power to him. :) It's a fun idea and I hope he's successful with it.
  • scabbers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Don't you need to have people to er..executive over to be a CEO? (Yelling for mom to bring you more YOP doesn't count)
  • Palmer586, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I give props to the kid. He has ambition, and the fact he was at TiECON show's he's got what it takes.
    Shame his idea sucks though.
    I cant see how this kind of thing will make chemistry fun or help it reach other non-chemistry liking kids, I mean, who plays card games like that? Social rejects, AKA, Science geeks.
    Trust me, I am one. Not a card-game player though, just the science geek bit.
    And even as a fellow nerd I'm not enticed into the world of chemistry with cards. I'll stick to my physics lessons thanks.
    • applessauce, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1That was my reaction - aren't science fiction geeks the ones who like these card games? - but then I wondered if Pokemon Changed Everything. I'm too old and out of touch to know.

      I'm pretty sure, though, that "play games where the chemicals fight each other" is not going to be the solution to the "not enough women in science" problem.
  • nhassan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1wait, hang on, when was making education fun a new idea?
  • jay0312, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You can enter contracts before the age of 18.

    Minors, however, are reserved the right to disaffirm.
  • slapthemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Splendid!!!!!!!!!!
  • Fiyerstorm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Hey now all he needs is an anime and video game about elements and he'll have a hit for the next ten years.

    #25 Manganese is cuter than #25 Pikachu too. :O
  • css1323, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2At 13, I was collecting Pokemon cards during the whole craze.

    I say give the kid a chance. Even if the whole "card game" thing is tiring out, this looks pretty interesting.

    I STILL know all of the major Pokemon monsters and their characteristics, and I'm 21 now. I could have learned much more valuable information instead!
  • dmcbride6, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0Another stupid card game...I know I wont be playing (or paying for that matter.)
  • AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+1Omfg, its ***** Magic remade.
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