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OK, I think you're going a tad too far now


Not really. Can you name a website that sold for anywhere near $500 million that required so little effort by the founder who was the only person working on the website? The creator of PoF had a work week that consisted of 1 or 2 hours of work. He did not even hire a another employee for 4 or 5 years after he started the website and the site was pulling in a million dollars a month at that point. The amount of work he put into the website is pretty amazing for the amount of money he got from it.


well, founder of minecraft sold it for $1 billion, and he was kind of a solo founder.




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