George Hotz
Hacker
George Hotz is here because he opens the box. The iPhone at seventeen, then the PlayStation 3, then a driving kit for the car and a small deep learning framework, most of it in the open and a lot of it live on stream. I come back to him when I am waiting for permission to start.
He was born in New Jersey in 1989, unlocked the first iPhone in 2007, and was sued by Sony over the PlayStation 3 in 2011. He founded comma.ai in 2015, which makes openpilot, and the tiny corp in 2022, which makes tinygrad. In this photograph he is on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2016.
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