Isaiah Turner (entrepreneur)

Isaiah Turner
Born (1998-08-07) August 7, 1998
Residence New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Citizenship United States
Education St. Mary's Ryken High School[1]
Occupation Entrepreneur, and engineer
Known for Co-founder of Monkey (2016)
Yo hacker (2014)
Net worth Increase US$3 million (June 2017)[2]

Isaiah Turner (born August 7, 1998) is an American Internet entrepreneur and Engineer. He is known for dropping out of high school at 16 years old and as the co-founder of the App Monkey, which he created with Ben Pasternak in 2016.[3][4]

In 2014, Isaiah was selected by Apple as one of about 200 students in the world to receive a Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Student Scholarship. This included free attendance at Apple’s San Francisco, CA event.[5]

Early life

On June 19, 2014, Isaiah hacked Yo after the app exploded in popularity and raised over $1.5 million in Venture capital financing.[6] He sent the following push notification to Yo’s users which caused the hashtag "#YoBeenHacked" to appear on Twitter’s trending topics list.[7]

wow. many 1337. such bad security.

I hacked Yo. Use hashtag #YoBeenHacked to talk about it.

Or Arbel, developer of Yo, hired Isaiah Turner to fix the app’s security flaws. At the time, Isaiah was 15 years old.[8]

Following his time at Yo, Isaiah was recruited by a lunch delivery service, MunchQuick.[9] The Washington, DC based startup company raised $50,000 in seed funding and launched on June 30, 2014.[10][11]

Career

Isaiah is the co-founder of Monkey. He started the company with his friend, Ben Pasternak. They created Monkey in response to their dissatisfaction with existing social media services.[12]

Monkey is a video chat based app that has been described as something much like speed dating for friends.[13] The app has been used to make over 250,000,000 calls and received praise from Tim Cook.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Student Awarded Scholarship to Apple Conference and Job with "Yo"". SoMD News. 2014-06-11. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  2. ↑ "The Under 30 List Of Millionaire Web Designers, Developers And Coders". UtterWeb. 2017-06-01. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  3. ↑ "Monkey is a new social network just for teens". Mashable. 2017-01-19. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  4. ↑ "MEET MONKEY’S TEEN-AGE FOUNDERS". The New Yorker. 2017-01-16. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  5. ↑ "WWDC: Meet tomorrow's tech stars". USA Today. 2014-06-05. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  6. ↑ "An App That Just Says 'Yo' Has Raised $1.5 Million At A $5–10 Million Valuation". Business Insider. 2014-07-18. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  7. ↑ "$1 million 'Yo' app has serious security flaws, users say". CNBC. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  8. ↑ "Yo CEO hires hacker". Fox Business. 2015-05-24. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  9. ↑ "MunchQuick rushes into food delivery with revamped website". Technical.ly. 2014-10-20. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  10. ↑ "This New DC Startup Will Bring You Lunch in Under 20 Minutes". DC Inno. 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  11. ↑ "Newly Launched MunchQuick Aims to Deliver Healthy Hot Meals in Under 20 Minutes". Tech.Co. 2014-07-10. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  12. ↑ "Meet the high school dropout, 17, who makes millions with his teen-focused apps that he created in his $5,000-a-month New York apartment he moved into at the age of 15". Daily Mail. 2017-04-15. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  13. ↑ "What Is The Monkey App? Connecting Teens To Strangers Via Video Chat". International Business Times. 2017-04-14. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  14. ↑ "Sydney high school dropout sitting on million-dollar empire". 9Stories. 2017-04-16. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
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