in december he told piers morgan how he got the idea. >> sure. i started programming when i was 12, and had been doing apps for a few years, and the way i thought of this idea is i was revising some history and i thought if i could build a piece of technology and take pre-existing content and summarize it and condense it, it would help people my age and everyone else consume it. >> the app takes articles, turns them into short summaries. nick still has to finish high school so he'll work from yahoo's london office. he'll be studying for his finals and working from yahoo and counting the money in his bank account. love that kid. >> when i was 12, i was listening to led zeppelin. i didn't even know -- >> you weren't programming? >> i wasn't. i should have been, clearly. >> it's like the cliff notes. >> for everything. for everything. and like sum of our news like some people think the news is like in too much of a summary