Focus: Social network
Jerome Touze, 27
Company: Where Are You Now (WAYN)
Web: www.wayn.com
Touze and Peter Ward launched travellers’ social network site WAYN with £10,000 from Friends Reunited founder Stephen Pankhurst. It now has $11m institutional backing and Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman is both an investor and company chairman. With nine million users, last year’s turnover was £1m, and revenue is growing by 20% a month.
