It's less than 10 years since it was created in Edinburgh by three young men with computer programming skills and a lot of ambition.

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Whelton, 20, had run a computer club at his own school, and saw a huge demand for more resources to teach computer programming skills to young people.

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He also showed off his "technical skills" by describing complicated computer-programming matters when meeting with executives such as John Donahoe, eBay's chief executive, this person said.

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