I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.
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“My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.”
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