The female Mark Zuckerberg: How 21-year-old created a social network because she didn't like her sch
 

The female Mark Zuckerberg: How 21-year-old created a social network because she didn't like her school yearbook photo... and is now worth $20m

Catherine Cook and her brother David were complaining about the choice of photographs in their annual school yearbook when an idea struck.

She set up a social networking site using a computer in her bedroom and in six years has built up 25 million users across the United States.

Myyearbook.com is one of the top 25 most visited sites in the country - and Miss Cook's company has just been valued at $20m.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rbook-com.html

amazing sucess story
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there's nothing special about her or zuckerberg.
neither one has done anything that made their *social network* any more special than the dozens and dozens that have come and gone in the last 15 years


they are both just incredibly lucky.

Top 25 most visited sites and only worth 20 million???

shes about two 0's off from being a "female Mark Zuckerberg"

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Why is someone not offering her 10Billion?

too many zuckerburg in america

fair play to the girl

never used MyYearbook.com.

yarp first i've heard of it, cool story tho

Social Network sites are shit. I don't care how popular they are...

heard of it, but never used it, has a facebook login, facebook is integrated into most thigns these days

i have not heard of it before.

just shows you, even one of the most used sites a lot of us have not heard of.

i think the fact a lot of us have not head of it or used it is the most interesting bit.

great success.

my first thoughts exactly

I was impressed, until the article stated "her brother David".

We all know David came up with everything and did most of the heavy lifting. Let's be real.

cant say I have ever even heard of it....

i'm now on Myyearbook.. I have never heard of it before....

great story :thumbsup

'My older brother Geoff had already enjoyed success with another website and decided to invest in us.'

I read about these kids awhile ago. They launched after MySpace and Facebook. They outsourced their ideas to India developers who developed the entire thing as a MySpace clone.

They got lucky because Facebook was still college only at the time of their launch. So all of the younger kids looking for tighter community's and social networks ala Facebook didn't really have much of a choice.

New place to spam, thanks!

Top 25 visited sites with a 543 usa alexa... I love the media.

that's pretty much all there is to it though right? A little hard work and a bit of luck is all that is ever needed.

Just one thing...

How does this happen:

"One minute we were brainstorming ideas, the next we had received an investment of $250,000."

This might be part of the reason the internet bubbled a few years back....and why it could happen again.

I brainstorm ideas all day.......

Sure are!

Yeah
You came up with the same thought as me :Oh crap

Facebook should and will probably make her an offer.

20 million dollar valuation and 100 employees already. I don't see this one ending good.

i play games sometimes there, nice multip pool

We use it on one of our mainstream sites and it works very well... :thumbsup

The oldest brother. He already had a dot com background.

It's a great story, everyone wants to think maybe their kid's gonna be the next Zuckerberg, but shit- even Zuckerberg's story isn't what everyone thinks it is. The truth is nowhere near as compelling.