MONEY MONEY MONEY !

The internet has been the scene of some spectacular success stories where young creators of sites or services have made huge fortunes.

There are two famous examples :

• YouTube : Was created in mid February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. YouTube displays a wide variety of video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. In October 2006, Google announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for $1.65 billion in Google stock. Thanks to this deal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim are outrageously rich and they are less than 30.

• Facebook : Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former member of the Harvard class of 2006. He is only 23 ! As of November 2007, the website had the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites with over 50 million active members worldwide and expects to pass 60 million users by the end of the year (also from non-collegiate networks). On October 24, 2007, the Associated Press reported Microsoft had bought a 1.6% share of the company for $240 million which values the site at around $15 billion…