Worldometer

The under-20 kid behind the Worldometer COVID counter

A young kid (maybe not even 20) copied the same simple chart format for COVID cases and it blew up to hundreds of millions of visits; per the NYT he refused to sell or run ads, despite an estimated $4-5M/year in potential display-ad revenue.

“So it was a kid. He might have been not even 20. He was a young kid and he did the same exact chart, but for COVID cases and it blew up. And I think the New York Times did an article about how he refused to sell it and he refused to put advertising on it. And they've estimated that he could be making $4 or $5 million a year off just display ads.”