“I picked up my own computer, went there and started coding… by the end of the summer, I had written the code for him and sold the program to him. Nobody ever got hired for that again.”

Cyriac Roeding · Business Of Biotech · Reprogramming Cancer And Competing With China With Earli's Cyriac Roeding

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Automated the manual task of checking newspaper ads by writing a computer program and sold it to his employer, eliminating the need for the manual job.

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