14-Year-Old High School and College Graduate Runs 2 Companies. How Does He Do It?

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Today’s Highlights:

• 14-Year-Old Boy Graduates High School and College in 3 Years 🤓

• Microsoft Purchases Generated Electricity from Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Fusion Startup☀️

• AI-Generated Idea: Tech Skills Exchange Platform 🧑‍💼👩‍💼

• Digibee Raises $60 Million 💰

14-Year-Old College Graduate Proves Entertainment is Key for Workload Recovery

Based on a study in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology in 2014, one of the ways to recover from your workload is to engage in creative activities. An outlet for leisure can help you perform at a higher level and feel more professionally engaged at work. Mike Wimmer, a 14-year-old college graduate from Salisbury, North Carolina, has proven this to be true.

Work Hard, Play Hard

While taking computer science at Carolina University, Wimmer managed to run two tech companies. He thrived in his studies while being commissioned by the U.S. military for his expertise in AI and machine learning. As if he wasn’t busy enough, Wimmer also worked on regulations for an invasive lionfish species with a Bermuda-based organization aiming to protect underwater ecosystems named Atlantic Lionshare.

Being a Mensa member, his intelligence and achievements are not at all surprising. What may be perceived as out of the ordinary, however, is Wimmer’s ability to still have fun and keep his childlike spirit despite his busy schedule.

His daily routine includes a fair amount of what Wimmer calls “kid time”, which includes swimming, playing basketball, and building Legos with friends. Wimmer also enjoys playing an online racing simulation game, iRacing, during work breaks.

(Not) Distraction is Key

Wimmer finds it paramount to be equally focused when both working and playing. Instead of perceiving entertainment as mere distractions, having fun and staying social are key for Wimmer to increase productivity and stay on top of his game.

This reminds professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners amongst you miners not to forget to keep having fun and staying social. It is essential to find enjoyment and pleasure in what you do.

Microsoft Buys Generated Electricity from Nuclear Fusion Startup Helion

When properly harnessed and commercialized, nuclear fusion is the ideal, limitless, and clean power. With the increasing need to respond to climate change, more countries and companies have been trying to perform more green action. Unfortunately, fusion power always seems to be a little bit out of reach.

Continued Fusion Efforts

Companies haven’t stopped trying to reach for this holy grail of energy, however. The Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) plans to have its first power plant on the grid and sell electricity in the early 2030s. A fusion project in Southern France called ITER is building a device called a tokamak to make commercializing fusion energy possible, and Helion Energy, a startup founded in 2013, is expecting to have its fusion generation device online by 2028.

One of Helion’s most significant investors is Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI. Altman’s vision of the future is to lower the cost and create safe, clean energy to improve everyone’s quality of life, and he believes fusion energy to be the solution. This Sam Altman-backed startup has recently made a deal with Microsoft.

Helion Meets Microsoft

Brad Smith, president at Microsoft, maintains the idea that fusion energy can help the world transition to clean energy. With that belief, Microsoft signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Helion Energy to buy electricity from it in 2028.

Helion’s agreement with Microsoft is to generate 50 or more megawatts of energy within a one-year period, which would power approximately 40,000 homes in Washington state. This PPA is part of Microsoft’s aggressive climate goal, which is to have 100% zero-carbon energy purchases by 2030.

Helion’s Progress

Helion CEO, David Kirtley, has said that to make their shared goal happen, Helion has plans not to build a tokamak but a device called a Field Reversed Configuration. This device involves shooting plasma (the fourth state of matter after solid, liquid and gas) from the ends of the device at more than one million miles per hour, aimed to create superhot dense plasma as it smashes into each other. This is where fusion happens.

Helion has managed to generate energy with its prototypes, but it still needs to build a device that can create more electricity than the one it uses to run the fusion device. Helion is currently working on a fusion machine named Polaris, which they hope could produce electricity by next year. Helion still has a long way to go but is optimistic about future results.

The vote of confidence to make fusion energy happen provides an opportunity and hope for professionals who, similar to Microsoft, have plans to make their business sustainable with zero-carbon energy.

Today’s AI-Generated Tech Idea

Tech Skills Exchange Platform

Sometimes, it can be a bit difficult for tech enthusiasts who are just starting their journey in the tech industry just to start. There are numerous sources to learn from, and you don’t know which to choose. Your problem might be solved with the help of the “Tech Skills Exchange Platform”.

This tech skills exchange platform would connect individuals with different skill sets and foster a sense of community, collaboration, and continuous learning. Tech beginners would be empowered to develop their skills, gain practical experience, and build a strong foundation for their tech careers.

This platform would match users based on their existing skills and areas of interest, giving them three skill-level choices, including beginner, intermediate, or advanced. The platform focuses on project-based learning, letting users collaborate on building tangible projects from scratch.

Users have the opportunity to share their expertise and teach others in their areas of strength through tutorials, live coding sessions, and video lessons. Learning is taken up a notch with experienced professionals in the industry given the opportunity to volunteer as mentors, providing guidance, career advice, and support for beginners.

For an extra sense of achievement, users will have access to a personal dashboard to track their progress, achievements, and milestones, and earn gamification elements such as badges, levels, and leaderboards.

Favorite Product of The Day

It’s not always so easy to maintain your focus when you have back-to-back online meetings. It’s important to take notes and pay full attention, but sometimes your head’s just not in it. With Winn.ai, a real-time sales assistant that joins in on your virtual meetings, busywork never felt so good.

Winn.ai can summarize your meetings by capturing all the information you need during calls, auto-populating your CRM with a click of a button, and tracking talking points and your sales progress in real-time.

All the administrative tasks that you find tedious will be taken care of by your sales assistant so you can focus on selling more, increasing your wins and overall performance. It will be a Winn-Winn for you and your team!

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Funding News

Low-code integration platform, Digibee, raises $60 million. Digibee, a Florida-based low-code integration platform founded in 2017, has raised $60 million in Series B funding. Digibee offers a set of automated tools that can help companies integrate apps in different environments. This startup has cloud services that support the creation of integration flows, pipelines, as well as enterprise apps, files, and other tools. The funds raised are planned to be utilized for customer support expansion in the U.S. and Latin America.

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