It seems like Google’s boss has a son with secret designs on the crypto world after telling his dad that he was mining Ether at home.
It appears that Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai’s 11-year-old son has his father’s entrepreneurial gene. Speaking at the New York Times DealBook conference last week he let slip that his son used the family computer to mine crypto. He commented:
“Last week I was at dinner with my son, and I was talking about something about Bitcoin, and my son clarified what I was talking about was Ethereum, which is slightly different,” Pichai said. “He’s 11 years old. And he told me he’s mining it.”
It seems that Google top brass have the mining bug after company co-founder Sergey Brin’s admission earlier this year that he was also mining Ethereum with his son at home. It seems that the kids are pretty up to date on the latest cryptocurrency tech details too, as Pichai admitted he had been corrected by his son when they were chatting about Bitcoin recently. Brin revealed:
“A year or two ago, my son insisted that we needed to get a gaming PC…I told him, ‘OK, if we get a gaming PC, we have to mine cryptocurrency.’ So we set up an Ethereum miner on there, and we’ve made a few pennies, a few dollars since.”
The Google boss was discussing his views on screen time for children in relation to a recent New York Times article about Silicon Valley technicians’ families and tech addiction among children. It appears that the computer his son was mining on was actually built by his dad.
“I’m like every other parent I guess,” Pichai said. “I do test a lot of gadgets at home, so I have vulnerabilities in terms of how my kids get access to stuff.”
Pichai said that he had to teach his son some important details about how the financial system worked, “I realized he understood Ethereum better than how paper money works …I had to talk to him about the banking system, the importance of it. It was a good conversation.”
The interview came on the same day that thousands of Google employees around the globe protested against Google’s handling of allegations of sexual misconduct against female employees with a simultaneous walk out. Pichai admitted ‘We didn’t always get it right.’
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