PlentyOfFish.com - One Man + One Language + Three Servers = Multi-Millionaire
Everyday, thousands of new bloggers fire up new blogs with aspirations of millions of dollars and little work at home.
They’ve read the latest from our good friend Everton Blair, the 17 year old .COM millionaire, or the out of work ASP programmer with a simple idea and a lot of time.
What did Ben Affleck say in Boiler Room?
“You become an employee of this firm, you will make your first million within three years. I’m gonna repeat that - you will make a million dollars.”
Well, Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish.com has done exactly that and then some. The difference is, he didn’t do it illegally, he did it alone, with just one programming language, three servers, and whole lot of help from the creators of ASP.net, Microsoft. Here is a short video, from American TV, on the largest ‘one manned’ website in the world.
What is surprising to me, is that Microsoft isn’t touting this guy more. He is surprising not only the ASP community, but the entire programming community in general. He is raking in, rumor has it, $5,000,000+ in yearly revenue, he works on the site less then 2hrs/day and he gets, according to him, updwards of 1 Billion page views/month.
While much larger pay sites, such as Match.com or Eharmony.com are setting up hundreds of servers, paying hundreds of staff and forcing people to pay at minimum $30.00/month, PlentyOfFish.com has done all of this for FREE, with no staff and a lot of help from Google Adsense. Truly a prime example of success in this Web 2.0 world.
What are your thoughts of Markus’s success? Anybody who isn’t jealous of his success?
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Comment by Rajan on 3 June 2008:
Another good feature on POF shows the hosting infrastructure he uses to run the site. A one man operation… very impressive!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI-AjFparNc
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Comment by Karen on 27 January 2008:
Just goes to show that the geeks shall inherit the earth ;P
Comment by Mathew Browne on 4 October 2007:
Ironic - he’s a millionaire so I bet HE doesn’t have a problem getting a date!
Comment by jammy on 28 September 2007:
Thats quite a lot of money.I read about you also Everton and your money making experiences with blogging.Just wish you both great success in the future to come.
Jammy
Comment by TimmyJ on 28 September 2007:
So, true, why do you think I wanted to join Everton’s team so bad. He’s really the only reason I got back into blogging.
Comment by Mortgage Guy on 28 September 2007:
He is just another inspiration for us all. I would not say I am jealous, more like envious. But then again I am envious of this site too if it makes 10k a month.
Comment by Shashank on 28 September 2007:
that guy is a regular member at dp i heard about him 3 months ago ..he has worked very very hard to reach at that point..
Comment by horisly on 28 September 2007:
that’s hard to believe….