How Was Orkut Formed ?

February 2, 2010 By Praveen 1 Comment

The True Story Behind Orkut….
Name:Orkut Buyukkokten
Born: 6th Feb 1976 in Konya,Turkey
Current Residene: Mountain View,California

Orkut Buyukkokten 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, achievemnt 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…
n 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 dollar profit in its first year, which we today know as Orkut.

Some Cool Facts About This Guy:

He gets $12 frm 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 everytime you view ur friend’s friend-list.