Info
- Category:
- Richest Business › CEOs
- Net Worth:
- $2 Million
- Birthdate:
- Apr 22, 1992 (32 years old)
- Birthplace:
- Moscow
- Gender:
- Male
- Profession:
- Entrepreneur
- Nationality:
- Russia
Andrey Ternovskiy is a Russian entrepreneur and the owner & creator of the web site Chatroulette who has a net worth of $2 million. Andrey Ternovskiy has earned his net worth from the site which pair's random strangers together from around the world together for webcam-based conversations. He created the web site at the age of 17, while attending high school in Moscow, Russia.
He was a frequent user of Skype where he would chat online with his friends, and this sparked the idea for Chatroulette. Ternovskiy watched the 1978 movie The Deer Hunter, in which prisoners of war are forced to play Russian roulette, and developed the name Chatroulette for his new site.
