Meet Timothy Brandt, the 19-year-old Trinidadian entrepreneur who just sold his meme news app to Google Inc. for close to $20 million, instantly becoming one of the world’s youngest self-made millionaires.
It’s the classic Silicon Valley success story of a young software prodigy striking it ridiculously and improbably big. But this time the spotlight is shining on the small Caribbean island.
Brandt, who taught himself to write software a year ago, built the free iPhone app Memely — which automatically summarizes meme related news stories for small screens — in his bedroom in 2016. He was just 18 years old.