Antony Clough

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Antony Clough (born in Oldham, Greater Manchester in 1978) is a business entrepeneur from Heywood, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in April 2005 along with friend and business associate David Bargh they were searching for internet investment ideas when they came up with the idea of investing in a U.S based internet site called youtube.com. After contacting Chad Hurley a founder of youtube.com it is reported that together Antony Clough and David Bargh aquired 3% of the company for a repoted 6000GBP. Just 7 months later Sequoia Capital invested 3.5m USD followed by former Paypal CFO Roelof Botha investing 8m USD. In October 2006 youtube.com was sold to Google for an estimated 1.65Billion USD and it is reported that the initial investment of 6000GPB made by Bargh and Clough just 18 months earlier is now worth 40m USD in Google stock. When asked by local and national media to comment on his new found wealth he declined to comment as did his business associate Bargh prefering to remain private. Antony has chosen to live a modest life shunning the millionaire lifestyle and still currently resides in Heywood along with friend David Bargh.