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Nick D'Aloisio, a Common card
Nicholas D'Aloisio is a British computer programmer and internet entrepreneur.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 120
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 120 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Nick D'Aloisio quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nick D'Aloisio card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
D'Aloisio is the ______ person to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at the age of 16.
Answer
youngest. D'Aloisio is the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at the age of 16. From the Nick D'Aloisio article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
D'Aloisio was more recently the founder of a startup called Sphere that was acquired by Twitter in October ____ for an undisclosed sum, and received $30M of venture capital investment from Index Ventures and Mike Moritz.
Answer
2020s. D'Aloisio was more recently the founder of a startup called Sphere that was acquired by Twitter in October 2021 for an undisclosed sum, and received $30M of venture capital investment from Index Ventures and Mike Moritz. From the Nick D'Aloisio article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is the founder of Summly, a mobile app which automatically summarises news articles and other material, which was acquired by Yahoo for $30M, according to allthingsd.com, but the price wasn't officially disclosed.
- D'Aloisio is the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at the age of 16.
- D'Aloisio was more recently the founder of a startup called Sphere that was acquired by Twitter in October 2021 for an undisclosed sum, and received $30M of venture capital investment from Index Ventures and Mike Moritz.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nick D'Aloisio article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Nick D'Aloisio (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mikey11000000, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
