Alex Tew
Alex Tew
The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and...
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The whole time though, I always imagined a day when I would be my own boss. It was just a question of being persistent, trying out new ideas and waiting for a breakthrough.
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All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account.
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The response has been incredible. The idea just seems to have caught people's imagination.
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All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account. I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test, so I've bought myself a little black Mini.
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I thought, if I aim high (one million dollars, for example) and only get one or two percent of that figure, that would still help me out a great deal. I never expected the site to reach the level of success it has done.
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I didn't expect it to happen like that. To have the job offers and approaches from investors -- the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief.
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I thought I might make a few grand but I've made a fortune. It's been a crazy adventure.
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Globat.com was very quick to support my efforts to become the first Internet pixel millionaire, and I appreciate their dedication to support creative entrepreneurs.