Google’s Siri has a new dad. The 21-year-old, who was Facebook’s youngest-ever engineer, is helping Google’s voice assistant compete in experience with Siri, which is led by an Apple executive in his late 50s.
Google Assistant
From an unknown to a product manager for one of the world’s top AI teams, this young man managed to catch the attention of his battalion chief:
“4 Snap,” which was developed at the age of 16, received more than 1 million downloads in a year.
Interned at Facebook at 17;
At 18, he became the youngest engineer in the company’s history.
Now, just turned 21, he’s about to join the Assistant team at Google…
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However, the battalion chief’s 24K pure titanium alloy investigation eyes also found that this young man is not the typical Silicon Valley talent like the other several we introduced before, what is he different? The original…
Facebook confirmed Sayman’s departure in a recent post, and Google announced that the young man would soon be joining its Assistant team. On September 13, the day before yesterday, I posted on Facebook that I left Facebook on September 12.
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11 years old, planted the seeds of learning programming — Club Penguin
No one would have guessed that the genius’s relationship with computers began in a Disney game.
When Sayman was 11 years old, he discovered a Disney game — Club Penguin — a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) involving virtual worlds and online games and activities, and was fascinated by it. So Sayman started reading blogs about games. Gradually, he developed his own ideas and designs for online games and began to write his own blog.
“I never saw programming as something I wanted to learn, it was just a tool with which TO build something I wanted. Later, I wanted to implement my design and make it into a mobile app version. I realized it was time for me to shift my focus to developing apps.”
Sure enough, he is a boy with an idea, and he will do it.
But Sayman’s idea didn’t get through to his parents. Young Synman and his mother make a bold bet
13 year old Bet – $100 “loan”
Sayman convinced his mother to “borrow” $100 from her to sign up for the iOS App Store so he could sell his product. He promised to work in his family’s small restaurant if he couldn’t pay back the money later.
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Since then, Sayman, 13, has taught himself how to code by watching free online tutorials and reading blogs. Although his school doesn’t offer any computer courses, he doesn’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing.
“The Internet is one of the best options anyone can use to learn, and it started my APP learning journey. Without the Internet, I probably wouldn’t have taken this path.”
He ended up developing hundreds of different applications, some successful and many more failed. It wasn’t until he was 16 that he developed 4 Snaps, which changed his life.
Age 16. 4 Snaps
Sayman once saw his sister and her friend playing a game in which their photos reflected a common theme. Inspired by this, he thought he might be able to program a similar game himself. 4Naps was born, and the app actually changed his life.
In 2013, when Sayman was 16, he released 4 Snaps on the iOS App Store. It’s a turn-based game in which users select a word from a bunch of words, take four photos of the words they’ve chosen, and send them to opposing players who can guess the words based on the photos they’ve taken.
4Naps was downloaded more than a million times in its first year, far more than Twitter, Starbucks or Garageband.
In a twist of fate, Sayman builds 4Snaps using the Parse development tools acquired by Facebook. As a result, Sayman managed to get Facebook’s attention. Facebook invited Sayman and his mother to meet CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park. Soon, the young man landed an internship at Facebook, which led to a full-time engineering position.
17-year-old intern at Facebook; 18 years old, full-time engineer; 19 years old, launched Lifestage
After joining Facebook as a software engineer at 17, Sayman quickly became a product manager, saying his job was to “understand and understand content creation and share the future through video.”
When he was 19, he launched Lifestage, a new standalone, video-centric social app for high school students on Facebook.
Over the past two years, he has become familiar with social networking and came up with the idea for Lifestage. “I wanted to build an app that people in my age group would use, or at least my friends would want to use,” he said.
Lifestage is mainly aimed at teenagers; People 22 or older can only see their own profile. You don’t need a Facebook account to sign up. You choose your high school and see video profiles of alumni or people nearby.
Lifestage doesn’t allow you to directly message your contacts, Sayman explains: “My friends and I all have our favorite messaging app that we’re used to. What’s the point of inventing another one?” Instead, at Lifestage, each user has a “Contact me” text line under their name to add information about their Snapchat or Instagram or other contact information.
Sayman launched the app on iOS devices in the US on August 19, 2016.
Less than 12 months later, Facebook removed Lifestage from the App Store and shut it down on August 4, 2017.
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Heaven seems to have been especially kind to the teenager, after all, his “career” seems to be going well. But what few people know is that Sayman worked so hard to learn about computers, and delivered and sold his products at such a high rate, not just because he was interested in them, but because he had to support his family.
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A story of the American dream and redemption
Sayman and his sister are first-generation U.S. citizens. Their parents immigrated from Peru and Bolivia, opened a small restaurant and worked hard to support their family of four.
“When my sister and I woke up at 2am and couldn’t see my mother, we knew she was still busy in our small restaurant. I learned from my parents that I wouldn’t get anything unless I worked as hard as they did.”
Poor children take charge early. Ever since he was 13, when his app started making money, Sayman has supported his family’s expenses: paying for his sister’s private school tuition, paying for the family’s electricity and Internet bills, and billing the family restaurant staff.
Even so, the family’s financial situation didn’t improve much, and it got worse and worse, until one day, Mom told Sayman that they had to leave the Country.
“My family came to the Dream America and settled here. I never thought that one day we would have to leave our home. I think I should be strong. I stopped being emotional and started to look at things more cautiously. I decided to stop doing homework and continue developing more apps to make sure we could pay our bills. My childhood ended at that moment. I will do my best to work for my family. My parents lost their jobs and I became the breadwinner.”
The young man learned too early the vagaries of fate and the hardships of life. When Sayman told his mother he was going to work full time, she cried. “Sometimes it’s hard for me to say what Sayman has done for the family, like he’s the father of the family, it’s crazy,” she said.
Sayman who works hard
“We did have a hard time at home,” Sayman said. “I had a pair of shoes that I had worn for five years and they were in tatters. So the first thing I do is buy myself a new pair of shoes.”
This is Sayman’s real life, and it’s not a typical Silicon Valley story. It’s also a story of the American dream and redemption.
“In my childhood, many things happened to me, and many times I made some scary and wrong decisions,” Sayman said. But I’m not afraid to try. I still have a lot to learn. But as this generation of teenagers growing up on the Internet, we have to accept our imperfections, we have to accept our fears and be strong in them.”
Positive energy overflowing ah my boy! Couldn’t be better!
Fortunately, the universe doesn’t disappoint those who work hard. After finishing his stint at Facebook, the young man, who turned 21 last month, is about to start his new job at Google.
At the age of 21, he joined Google’s Assistant team
At Google, Sayman will serve as a product manager for Assistant, a voice service based on big data from the search engine that the company is working to embed in its own products and other companies’ devices.
While Sayman is happy working at Facebook, he speaks highly of his former employer, Mark Zuckerberg, whom he describes as an “incredible inspiration” and an “absolute pleasure to work with.” But on a personal development level, he said of Assistant, “I see an opportunity for Google to use Assistant to lower the barriers for kids/teens of all ages and backgrounds to learn programming and encourage them to explore the world of computer science that was once considered impossible.”
Battalion commander believes that the vision of this talented young man with responsibility, and also believes that he will surely have something to do in the future. Blessing!