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At 16, with zero programming knowledge, Tejas taught himself to build a website for the motel he grew up in. It made $48K/year. Tejas Bhakta grew up literally living in a Budget Inn motel in Anaheim — from birth until he was 18. "My parents only did sixth grade,...

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