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Originally Posted by Paraskass
they sure we're a good ROI.
But it just proves he knew nothing about making money on the internet, and because of luck and hype, he made a lot of money.
His webpage is ugly, and I don't see how it can be usefull for an advertiser to buy a spot there.
I figure it's in the same category of investments as buying an add spot on somebody's forehead. Great exposure for a short period of time, nothing more.
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Agreed, to a point. He definitely doesn't seem web savvy, and I think that this is why he was successful. Read his blog entries - he plays off as a regular student who is not a brilliant programmer nor web interpreneur, and media loves these kind of "get quickly rich on the intraweb" stories.
Love him or hate him, you gotta give him credit for knowingly or unknowingly playing the media. He did it so well that online newspapers worldwide, from chinese to russian, were writing articles about him and his little page. Even wall street journal caught on, and he went on a short publicity tour to the US.
I don't think any web-savvy person would have imagined this idea working to begin with.