This is the story of Orkut (one of the largest social networking sites) and its CEO BUYUKKOTEN. The founder of Orkut started it to find his girlfriend and now it has become very popular all over the world.
A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident… but the girl’s name didn’t appear anywhere on the list of dead. This guy grew up to be an IT technical architect at age 20; he achieved in himself !! He hired developers from all over the world and plans to create software where he can search for his girlfriend through the web. Things went according to plan and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years! It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google talked to this guy and took over this app. This software made a whopping $1 billion profit in its first year, what we know today as ORKUT. The type name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN. Yeah, she just got the name from him.
Nowadays, Google pays you a hefty sum for the things we like to throw away. She is expected to be the richest person in 2010. ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook and 8 to monitor his friends list. He receives around 20,000 friend requests per day and around 85,000 notepad messages!
Some other interesting facts about this guy:
* Founder of orkut.com, richest man in 2010
* You get $12 from Google when each person signs up on this website.
* You also get $10 when you add someone as a friend.
* Gets $8 when your friend’s friend adds you as a friend and gets $6 if someone adds you as a friend in the resulting chain.
* You get $5 when you dump someone and $4 when someone dumps you.
* You also get $200 for every photo you upload to Orkut.
* You get $2.5 when you add your friend in love list or favorite list.
* Get $2 when you become a fan of someone.
* Get $1.5 when someone else becomes your fan.
* You even get $1 every time you leave Orkut.
* Get $0.5 every time you change your profile picture.
* You also get $0.5 each time you read your friend’s scrapbook and $0.5 each time you view your friend’s friends list.