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by eloff 2091 days ago
That already happened, see plentyoffish.com, created by Markus Frind in Vancouver, the first (or first popular anyway) free online dating website. Sold for $575M. No outside funding, and for a long time it was just him and his girlfriend running it, working about 10 hours a week. When he sold it to match.com, they had 75 employees and he was working normal hours.