Ben Way

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Ben Way was one of the first dot com millionaires after developing a search technology called Waysearch which later became a business-to-business product called Pulsar. He was reportedly worth £18.3m in the 2001 Sunday Times Rich List. He started his first business in 1995 on his 15th birthday making him at that time the youngest company director in the UK.

He won "New Business Millennium Young Entrepreneur Of The Year" in 2000 which was given to him by Gordon Brown.

However, after a dispute with the investors in 2001 he was diluted out of the business and lost everything.

In 2003, he started an innovations and corporate ventures company, [1] The Rainmakers, which develops new technologies.

In 2006, he appeared on the Channel 4 show Secret Millionaire where he gave away £40,000 in a philanthropic act. £20,000 was given to a youth organisation, £10,000 to a young entrepreneur, and another £10,000 as a thank you to one key member of the Hackney community.

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