kruxor on October 27th, 2010 Social Networks, Social Sites and Other sites that have hit the rich list.
Thought these dudes were quite interesting so this is what i found, good for a bit of inspiration 
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Coming in at Number 5.
Name: Andrew Michael
Site: Fast Hosts (http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/)
Age: 29
Value: $110+ Million
Looks like this guy knows his business, maybe a bit of luck played its role as well here.
Fasthosts is a provider of Internet access and hosting services based in Gloucester, England. The company also operates the domain name registration service UKreg and cloud infrastructure service Rise, and has operations in the United States.
Fasthosts was originally started by Andrew Michael, then aged 17, as part of an A-level school project. It became a limited company in 1999, and launched UKreg in 2000. The company specialised in providing services for small businesses, and in 2002 was listed as the second fastest growing technology company in the United Kingdom by The Sunday Times. In 2005 the company had a turnover of £20 million and made £5 million profit. The company also became known for hosting lavish Christmas parties for its staff; an event in 2005 costing £600,000 featured appearances from Jonathan Ross, The Darkness and Boney M. In 2006 Fasthosts was sold to German internet service provider United Internet for £61.5 million, netting Michael £46 million for his 75% stake. Michael remained as CEO until 2009, when he left to found Livedrive.
A hacking incident in 2007 prompted Fasthosts to temporarily shut down customers’ websites. The company noticed that its servers had been accessed in October and wrote to customers recommending that they change their passwords; in December after noticing “unusual activity” on some sites it closed down those that had yet to change their passwords until new passwords could be issued by post.
In 2008 Fasthosts acquired reseller Streamline.net, and also launched a reseller hosting service in the United States. Cloud infrastructure service Rise was launched in 2010. Fasthosts is the founding sponsor of The Great Exhibition 2012.
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Coming in at Fourth Place (4th)
Name: Blake Ross and David Hyatt
Site: Mozilla
Age: 22
Value: $120+ Million
Together they took the browser world by storm.
Blake Aaron Ross
Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla web browser; in particular, he started the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt, as well as the Spread Firefox project with Asa Dotzler while working as a contractor at the Mozilla Foundation. In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine’s top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart. He was also a part of Rolling Stone magazine’s 2005 hot list.
Born in Miami, Florida. He created his first website at the age of 10. He began programming while still in middle school and began contributing to Netscape very soon after it was open-sourced. He worked as an intern at Netscape Communications Corporation at the age of 15, while attending high school at Gulliver Preparatory School, from which he graduated in 2003. Later that year, he enrolled at Stanford University, where he is now on a leave of absence to focus on work. He currently resides in nearby Mountain View, California.
David Hyatt
Dave Hyatt (June 28, 1972) is an American software developer currently employed by Apple Inc. (since July 15, 2002), where he is part of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit framework. Hyatt was part of the original team that shipped the beta releases and 1.0 release of Safari. He is currently the Safari and WebKit Architect.
Before Apple, Hyatt worked at Netscape Communications from 1997 to 2002 where he contributed to the Mozilla web browser. While at Netscape, he also created Camino (then known as Chimera) and co-created Firefox (originally called Phoenix) with Blake Ross. He is credited with the implementations of tabbed browsing for Chimera and Firefox (the initial implementation for Netscape/Mozilla browsers, on which Hyatt based his work was created by HJ van Rantwijk, as part of his MultiZilla project at multizilla.mozdev.org).
Hyatt also created and wrote the first specifications for the XBL and XUL markup languages.
Hyatt studied as an undergraduate at Rice University and graduate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Hyatt developed, but no longer maintains, the software for Shadowland Six in his spare time; a forum and discussion server for the Shadowrun community. He also co-wrote published material for Shadowrun as a freelance writer, including the books Renraku Arcology: Shutdown and Brainscan.
He is also an active member of the W3C’s CSS Working Group. He was an editor of the HTML5 draft specification up through March 2010, at which time he resigned to concentrate on other endeavors.
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Third Place (3rd)
Name: Chad Hurley
Site: Youtube
Age: 30
Value: $300+ Million
Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0′s “50 People Who Matter Now” list. In October 2006 he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.76 billion to Google.
Hurley worked in eBay’s PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo before starting YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Chen and Jawed Karim.
Hurley was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube.
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005.
The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, BBC, VEVO and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18 and older. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
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Second Place (2nd)
Name: Andrew Gower
Site: Runescape
Age: 28
Value: $650+ Million
Man did i waste too much time playing this game, argh give me back those long lost years! Although i must say that i did prefer the classic runescape the the new version.
Andrew Christopher Gower (born 2 December 1978)[1] is a British video game developer and co-founder of Cambridge-based Jagex Ltd, the company he founded with Paul Gower and Constant Tedder. He is noted for writing the MMORPG RuneScape with the assistance of his brother Paul Gower. He remains its Lead Developer.
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First Place! (1st)
Name: Mark Zuckerberg
Site: Facebook
Age: 23
Value: $700+ Million
Yes they have just made a movie about it. Definitely on my to watch list.
Mark Elliot “Zuck” Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard. He is a 24% shareholder of Facebook
