Early Adopter: Techie Teens Review Jason Calacanis’ Launch Conference

February 26, 2011 at 9:25 am PT

After this week’s Launch conference, where tech impresario Jason Calacanis played host to dozens of new companies vying for a piece of the spotlight, I caught up with the conference’s youngest attendees at their own semi-official after-party (all the other parties were 21 and up).

After a few rounds of tea, I asked them to share their post-millennial perspectives on Launch, start ups, and consumer tech culture.

They angstily obliged.

Here’s a short video with Max Swisher, 13, Hunter Owens, 19, and Benjamin Garrett, 20, riffing on whats wrong, whats new, and whats next in tech:

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