Chatroulette

Chatroulette is service using which users can communicate in the video chat mode with strangers. The main button in Chatroulette – "Next". She allows to select the following interlocutor.

At the beginning of a year 2010 of Chatroulette.com became popular thanks to football fans who made it the means of communication for some time. Soon visited the site on 20 thousand people a day. However the superpopularity came to Ternovsky's child in February of the 2010th when told the New York magazine about Chatroulette, a Good Morning, America broadcast and the The New York Times newspaper.

The followed reaction was also connected rather with service, than with his creator. For example, it was succeeded to find out that the audience of Chatroulette for 71 percent consists of men, for 15 percent from women and for 14 percent from perverts. The domination of exhibitionists found the reflection even in an episode of South park "You have 0 friends" ("You've Got 0 Friends"), Facebook generally devoted.

By March, after February media explosion, Ternovsky's site was daily visited by one and a half million people, and he by that moment already reached California and conducted negotiations with the American investors.

Investor relations

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.

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 successfully operates on the Mail.ru portal since March. The considerable share of Mail.ru belongs to DST.

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, and now it would be quite good to Ternovsky to get investor support.