I met Maurice on February 22nd, 2014, at a high school hackathon. […]
Later that night, I received a phone call from him, and he asked if I would be able to teach him how to code. I love teaching, and Maurice seemed like a nice kid, so I offered to help. He immediately said, “okay, go,” and awaited instruction. I explained that I wouldn’t be able to teach him over the phone, but then I found out that he didn’t have internet at home.
It’s really easy to overlook these “details”, specially with the president of Y Combinator (the most prestigious accelerator in the US) tweeting stuff like this:
also, when people say "we need to train more coders domestically": while that's true, anyone who wants can teach themselves to code online
— Sam Altman (@sama) December 30, 2014