Moneymakers: the child prodigy aiming to abolish ageing

Laura Deming dropped out of MIT to set up a biotechnology fund to invest in companies tackling ageing.

Laura Deming

Deming: relatively small sums set her on the path to potential greatness
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Home-schooled child prodigy Laura Deming was just 14 years old when she went to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), says Danny Fortson in The Sunday Times. But she dropped out when an even bigger opportunity came along. In 2011, she applied and was accepted for the Thiel Fellowship, a scheme set up by the billionaire investor Peter Thiel to offer $100,000 to entrepreneurs under 20 years of age who were not in education.

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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