A 17-year-old was hired as a software engineer, and Cloudflare got nearly one million applications for 1,100 summer internships. The speaker argues that kids who spend time online and gaming develop real technical skills that make them job-ready now.
So similarly, Neil, I mean, we just kind of talked about hiring here, right? So I want to talk about why I think now is one of the best times if you're coming out of college to find a job, especially if you hang out on the internet all the time, and especially if you play video games. And here's why I think that's because we just hired a 17-year-old, Neil, and he's very cracked out. And then we're probably going to hire his friend as well, who's probably only 17 or 18 years old, as kind of software engineers because they're pretty cracked out and they're pretty good, right? And so this is from the Cloudflare CEO. We received almost a million applicants for 1,100 paid internships this summer. The interns we hired are extremely qualified and AI native. They're all builders or sellers, and we expect the majority will get full-time offers.
