Maciej Popowicz (born 1984) – creator of
nasza-klasa.pl, the
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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.
Maciej Popowicz, founder of Nasza-klasa.pl
/ref> 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.
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1984 births
Living people
Polish computer scientists
Polish businesspeople