Lastminute founders dissed by kids in schools code push [VIDEO]

June 22, 2012 By Linda Fox Leave a Comment

Must try harder is the clear message for Lastminute.com founders Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox as they are summarily dismissed with a “next” in this video to encourage school children to learn to code.

It’s well worth its two-minute viewing time as other high profile dot.com names are also quickly despatched by the team of kids put together by the Code Club initiative.

Hoberman and Lane Fox can at least take some comfort from the fact that other illustrious names such as YouTube founder Chad Hurley and Tim Berners-Lee get the same treatment.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: code, Code Club, coders, education, lastminute.com, youtube

About Linda Fox

Linda Fox is a reporter for Tnooz. For the past six years she has worked as a freelance journalist across a range of B2B titles including Travolution, ABTA Magazine, Travelmole and the Business Travel Magazine.

In this time she has also undertaken corporate projects for a number of high profile travel technology, travel management and research companies.

Prior to her freelance career she covered hotels and technology news for Travel Trade Gazette for seven years. Linda joined TTG from Caterer & Hotelkeeper where she worked on the features desk for more than five years.