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Why didn't Richard Marttel drop out of uni to do it anyway?

• notahacker 16y ago
  From the Guardian article Oo links to: Can he see this becoming a full-time profession? "No, I've got a job in the city lined-up for me. This is only a joke." I think Markus Frind has shown that you can make shedloads of money from lonely (or horny) hearts, but free dating is a narrower, more competitive niche than Facebook, and anonymous free dating is narrower still. You'd need a serious long term vision to turn early growth for that sort of service into something that will generate more lifetime value than a UCL degree...
  • revorad 16y ago
    So the reason Facebook never happened in the UK is that British hackers would rather get a finance job!