Maciej Popowicz
Maciej Popowicz | |
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| Born | 1984 (age 39–40) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Known for | Founding nasza-klasa.pl |
Maciej Popowicz (born 1984) – creator of nasza-klasa.pl, the Polish version of social networking site Classmates.com and student of computer science at University of Wrocław. He became one of the youngest Polish millionaires, after he sold 20% of shares of nasza-klasa.pl (20,000,000 zlotys, about $6,300,000, €4,500,000, £3,850,000) to German venture capital fund, European Founders in 2007.[1] In 2008 Estonian fund Forticom bought 70% of shares of nasza-klasa.pl, with estimated worth 175,000,000 zlotys (about $55,000,000, €39,000,000, £34,000,000). In 2007 he got the Człowiek Roku Polskiego Internetu (Person of the Year of Polish Internet) prize.