Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, just might lose billions of dollars in Facebook stock IPO.
Young Russian billionaire, who also created and have a social networking site but is less well known than Zuckerberg, apparently also wanted to throw his money.
Pavel Durov, VKontakte-founder of a popular Russian social networking - was photographed throwing a paper airplane made of paper money 5000 rubles (equivalent to 150 U.S. dollars, or USD 1.4 million) from his office window. Thus, a large crowd of people soon came under the headquarters of the social networking site in St Petersburg. A number of 27-year-old male colleague was rejoicing when watching the reactions of people in the office.
However, the events that initially harmless immediately turned into a creepy collection of people. Mail Online, Wednesday (30/5) reported, as more and more people realize what is going on, a street fight broke out when they won the money it's free.
According to the news network RT, a witness said, "People turn into a dog because they are really fighting over the money-the money. They break each other's nose, climbed traffic lights to catch the money, just a monkey."
Durov believed to have thrown a total of about 2,000 dollars, or USD 19 million. He then explained that he only wanted to create gaiety in the city, to mark the City Day at the weekend.
"We must immediately stop when the people turn into animals," kicaunya on Twitter. He added that a similar action like that would soon follow.
However, not everyone is happy with the act of the young millionaire. Bloggers have condemned Russia's actions as crazy and provocative. A web author writes that it is bad when throwing large sums of money and then pay attention to how other people behave.
Durov created and have Vkontakte - which translates as In Contact. The social network has about 120 million users. The site is one of the popular social networking site in Russia and Durov wealth is estimated at 7.9 billion rubles (equivalent to 242 million dollars).
Durov recently announced his political manivesto that shows you how to transform Russia into the country prosperous. She describes herself as a single, libertarian and pastafarian. He also said he was inspired by Che Guevara and Steve Jobs.
Durov was born in Leningrad in October 1984. His father, Doctor Valery Semenovich Durov, was one of philologists (linguists) are highly respected in Russia and has written numerous academic studies and work in St Petersburg State University.
Young Durov VKontakte launched for testing in September 2006 when he graduated from the same university. The site is growing rapidly to break the record, and Russian internet is currently the most popular social network in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. In three countries, the site has more than 150 million users and 33 million visitors each day.
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