Gratis Mind

I got this in a forwarded mail.

The Story….

A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident….

but the gal’s name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20?s, achievement in itself!!.

He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web..

Things went as planned… and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!

It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a word with this guy n took over this application,

This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year, which we today know as ORKUT .

The guy’s name is ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN . Yes its named after him only. Today he is paid a hefty sum by Google for the things we do like scrapping. He is expected to b the richest person by 2009.

ORKUT BUYUKKOTEN today has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps!!!

Some other Cool Facts about this guy:

* He gets $12 from Google when every person registers to this website.
* He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
* He gets $8 when your friend’s friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as friend in the resulting chain.
* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
* He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
* He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
* He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan.
* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
* He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
* He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
* He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend’s scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend’s friend-list.

“Moral of the story”?

LOSE GIRLFRIEND AND MAKE BILLIONS !!!!

Nice! But if you read that carefully, it sounds so silly.

* He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
* He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan.
* He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
How is it different to google when somebody scraps you or you scrap someone

if still not convinced, go through his wiki page ..

Orkut Bykkkten is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service called Orkut while working at Stanford University using the name ClubNexus. He developed Orkut as an independent project towards his PhD thesis under Hector Garcia-Molina under the same grant which produced Google. He developed Orkut as an independent project while working at Google, the outgrowth of a company policy whereby all employees at Google can spend 20% of their time working on personal interests. Google follows the principle where each employee can divide his time in the ratio 70:20:10. 70% on his/her core business, 20% on some stuff of their interest but related to Google’s core business of search and 10% time on absolutely anything.