Lifehacked: How One Family from the Slums Made Millions Selling Apps

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Robert Landon It didn't say how his father passed away in the book. It just says that his face was smashed, but it didn't say how. Your assumption was that it was s…moreIt didn't say how his father passed away in the book. It just says that his face was smashed, but it didn't say how. Your assumption was that it was smashed by criminals, but there are other ways of getting your face smashed, such as a vehicle accident or falling from a high place. In the YouTube video where he gives a speech at Harvard, he says that he died from an illness, but never said what kind of illness. If you put the two clues together, I'm going to guess that his father had a mental illness and committed suicide by stepping in front of a train or similar. In the book it also says that someone else was responsible for this, so it probably could have been prevented.(less)

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