Today I came across a couple of articles on the boy – and he is a boy – who came up with the concept and now stands to make enough Russian millions he could buy my favourite football club.
The story of just how 17-year-old Moscow student Andrey Ternovskiy came up with the idea reads like a nerd’s wet dream and is so unlikely you could almost swear it was pinched from the script of some Eighties movie starring Anthony Michael Hall.
‘Student’ is a bit of a loose term really, young Andrey has wagged school so many times since this all started he’s closed to being expelled but it doesn’t seem to bother him:
Ternovskiy: It's not all about ability, it's also about luck. But in fact, everything I know, I've learned from the Web. To be honest, I rarely go to school.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Why?
Ternovskiy: I am a nerd. The web is everything for me. School bores me. I have my own way of learning: I read Wikipedia. School is a waste of my time and I'd rather use that time to program and for business negotiations.
I hear that Andrey. In fact I even wonder why we send our kids to school at all – the internet knows far more than all the teachers do.
But don’t take my word for it, you can read more on Andrey here.
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