How this engineer worked his way from a coffee shop to a plum gig at a $24 billion startup

Mike Curtis worked his way from AltaVista to Yahoo to Facebook to Airbnb -- without a college degree -- all because he was good at serving lattes. In high school, Curtis worked at a coffee shop, serving up hot drinks to businessmen. A new tech company was across the street, and Curtis started pestering its owner about getting an internship. "It's okay to be shameless sometimes," Curtis said to a crowd of 3,000 aspiring tech employees at Internapalooza. "You just have to go get it." The owner fin...