{"id":11812,"date":"2019-04-19T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=11812"},"modified":"2019-04-19T17:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T22:40:37","slug":"iddris-sandu-the-21-yo-genius-that-left-big-tech-uber-to-share-knowledge-with-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/iddris-sandu-the-21-yo-genius-that-left-big-tech-uber-to-share-knowledge-with-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Iddris Sandu \u2013\u00a0the 21 yo genius that left Big Tech &#038; Uber to share knowledge with The People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-18.18.54-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"Iddris teaching design via Apple\" class=\"wp-image-11813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-18.18.54-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-18.18.54-225x159.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-18.18.54-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-18.18.54-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-18.18.54.jpg 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>21 year old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iddrissandu\/\">Iddris Sandu<\/a> was born to parents from Ghana. At age 10 he taught himself a bunch of programming languages and at age 18 was consulting for Snapchat. He&#8217;s sold algorithms to Instagram and Uber and Google was so impressed with Sandu, they created an internship position just for him was he was 13. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Iddris found himself, &#8220;wanting to help impact kids that looked like me, and being able to provide information to the masses.\u201d So, he said goodbye to Big Tech and now teaches tech and design, makes music and inspires us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 year old Iddris Sandu was born to parents from Ghana. At age 10 he taught himself a bunch of programming languages and at age 18 was consulting for Snapchat. He&#8217;s sold algorithms to Instagram and Uber and Google was so impressed with Sandu, they created an internship position just for him was he was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/iddris-sandu-the-21-yo-genius-that-left-big-tech-uber-to-share-knowledge-with-the-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Iddris Sandu \u2013\u00a0the 21 yo genius that left Big Tech &#038; Uber to share knowledge with The People&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":11813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,16,1422],"tags":[2685,2686],"class_list":["post-11812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-digital-life","category-transformation","category-youth","tag-iddris-sandu","tag-tech-architect"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11815,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions\/11815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}