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Chatroulette Founder

Chatroulette Founder is Now a New Yorker Profile Bigshot

by Robert Quigley | 12:41 pm, May 10th

The Andrey Ternovskiy infatuation tour continues: Since the creator of Chatroulette unmasked himself as a 17-year-old high school student from Moscow, he’s drawn considerable attention from the likes of The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and even venture capitalist Fred Wilson, who’s expressed interest in investing in Chatroulette.

Now, Ternovskiy is the subject of one of The New Yorker‘s trademark 4,000-word profiles. There aren’t any massive new revelations here — though 4chan types may find some glee in learning that Ternovskiy first cut his teeth on DDoS attacks when he was 11 — but it’s a fascinating read about a fascinating figure.

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Chatroulette Creator May Be Bound for the U.S.A.

by Robert Quigley | 10:20 am, March 8th

This past Friday, German paper Der Spiegel ran the first-ever in-depth profile of Andrey Ternovskiy, the creator of Chatroulette. It’s a fascinating read — and all of today’s Chatroulette trend piece writers should make a note of Ternovskiy’s stated long-term goal of “keeping the ‘freaks and f***ers,’ as he calls them, off the site.”

The piece focuses on the battle between Russia and the U.S.A. over smart, talented tech entrepreneurs, and makes the point that if Russia loses the Ternovskiys of the world (and, by extension, the Chatroulettes of the world), it’s already lost the next round of the tech war.

All of which is well, good, and abstract, but the writer saves his biggest bombshell for the end of the narrative profile: Andrey Ternovskiy is applying for a visa to come the U.S.A.

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