Julian Martinez’s Blog

Over the past 6 months Orkut’s traffic has exploded but few people seem to have noticed and hardly anyone talks about it. If they keep up their current growth rate they will overtake Myspace soon!

So why is no one talking about it? Well most of the growth has come from Brazil and more recently India. Google has now has a huge platform to accelerate the spread of Google Talk, and possibly even catch up on Skype. Imagine – you login to Orkut, you want to chat to your friends? With an integrated Google Talk, you’ll only need to hit the chat/call button and you’re away…

Nicholas Latham has recently joined the team. He is our first MBA recruit and he is going to be a great help to me in managing the company, by taking many tasks off my plate!

Nicholas is our second senior recruit this year. He has a Bachelors degree from LSE, an MBA from INSEAD and has worked for Clifford Chance, Close Brothers Corporate Finance and Corporate Value Associates, a strategy boutique.

His international background (half Greek, half English, lived in Brazil, Greece, England, Spain, France) makes him well placed to be our localisation guru! He will head up an initiative to internationalise and localise all Adoos sites.

A big plus is that he is completely crazy about Madrid and Buenos Aires so it wasn’t hard to convince him to fly back and forth between the two cities (like I do).

One of the biggest perks we offer our employees is the option to enjoy 2 summers per year…!!  We bring the BA team to Madrid in June and July and then the Madrid team heads to BA from December to February!