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How Silicon Valley’s teen phenom will help blind
(original source CBS News)
In a room full of entrepreneurs and investors, 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee, may seem out of place.
But the eighth grader is already a star; the youngest person ever to get venture capital investment for a start-up, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.
It all began last year, during a conversation with his parents.
“I just asked a simple question, ‘how do blind people read?'” Banjeree asked. “They said, ‘go Google it.’ And I found out that braille printers cost $2,000 onwards.”
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