Ternovsky Andrey

Ternovsky Andrey

In the spring of 2010 the name of Andrey Ternovsky was picked up by media on both sides of Atlantic.

Journalists of The New York Times the first could contact Andrey and interview him by e-mail. He told them about a lot of things: about seven Frankfurt servers with cumulative capacity, respectively, in seven gigabits per second; about the relatives who invested in the project; how it alone writes the code; about an advertizing minimum on a resource. However he did not tell about himself almost anything except that would like to go to the USA.

Andrey Ternovsky in article The New Yorker is presented as the 18-year-old pimply teenager whom money so does not interest that he could not work more than a month for the uncle in the souvenir shop. Andrey has oppositional mathematicians parents with cumulative salary in 800 dollars a month, the father living on two families and also the total absence of mathematical capabilities multiplied by chronic absences and disputes with teachers.

The founder of Chatroulette is afraid of a conscription and also was nearly late for the airplane to America because forgot all the passwords and to it it was necessary to come back home. Besides, as writes the weekly, Ternovsky before departure (the visa to it was made by one of potential investors) announced that he is not going to return from the States, than caused a quarrel in family.

Separately it is worth mentioning the story about how Ternovsky studied hacker craft and paid special attention to the organization of DDoS attacks. Then at requests of girls he cracked the websites and mailboxes, and since 2007 was engaged in social engineering - in particular, issuing himself for the teacher, access to the content of examinations before their receipt in school got.

Interestingly in article are described Ternovsky and Yury Milner's relation, the co-owner of Digital Sky Technologies fund, the largest Internet holding in Runet. Andrey said that he does not want to deal with the businessman. The businessman probably wanted as at the New York airport of Ternovsky waited for the taxi called by Milner. It perturbed the creator of a video chat.

It is necessary to add that rumors that owners of DST suggested to purchase Chatroulette.com were in parallel spread and are ready to pay, by different estimates, from 13.5 to 40 million dollars. Judging by written to The New Yorker, Milner was refused. Anyway, the Videochat service, functionally similar Chatroulette began to operate on the Mail.ru portal since March, 2010.

To The New Yorker it is written that did not develop at the Ternovsky relation and with network of acquaintances Mamba which as affirms on its website, "is close familiar" with Finam holding" - one more co-owner of many runetovsky assets. "Mamba" was the only advertiser of Chatroulette.

As a result Ternovsky refused money of investors, moved to America and began to develop service. Soon it became clear that a considerable part of visitors of the website — the people wishing to undress in front of the camera and it complicated business development.

In the summer of 2010 the website was closed, opened again in the fall, and now Ternovsky claims that he learned to earn, redirecting doubtful visitors on the pornwebsites which pay for it.

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