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WAYN (website)
WAYN (an acronym for ''Where Are You Now?'') is a social travel network. Its stated goal is to ''help discover where to go and meet like-minded people.'' WAYN was founded in 2002 and after years of slow growth saw its membership multiply from 45,000 to 4.1 million members in one year following a relaunch in May 2005. In 2015 it claims to have over 20 million users.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wayn.com/aboutus )〕 Like some other social networking sites, WAYN enables its users to create a profile and upload photos. Users can search for other users and link them to their profiles as friends.
== History ==
WAYN was founded in 2002 in London by Jérome Touze (Co-CEO), Peter Ward (Co-CEO) and Mike Lines (CTO), after two of them came up with the idea to connect people based on their location while having a few beers in their local pub.
WAYN initially grew through word-of-mouth and reached almost 50,000 members by the end of 2004. Following its relaunch in May 2005 it grew exponentially, reaching over 2.5 million members by the end of 2005. On 26 March 2012 the site claimed "over 19.1m members".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wayn.com/aboutus )〕
The business started with initial seed funding in 2003 from the original founder of Friends Reunited.〔http://www.putneysocial.co.uk/scaling-a-successful-business-session-with-pete-ward.html〕 In 2006, the WAYN Founders managed to complete a Series A Fund Raising of $11 million from DFJ Esprit and attracting famous internet entrepreneurs such as Brent Hoberman (ex founder of lastminute.com), Hugo Burge (CEO of cheapflights.co.uk), Adrian Critchlow and Andy Phillips (ex founders of Active Hotels) and Constant Tedder (ex CEO of Jagex, an online gaming company) and was referred to at the time as the 'MySpace of Travel'.〔http://mashable.com/2006/11/27/wayn-gets-11m-for-myspace-of-travel//〕 In 2015 the site claims to have over 20 million users.〔 WAYN was voted best community site at the Website of the Year Awards in 2007, 2008 and through 2010–2014 〔http://www.wayn.com/aboutus〕 It was also named as one of the top 100 Global Companies to watch at the AlwaysOn Global Watch List.〔http://www.wayn.com/press/releases/331〕 The site claims to generate over 100 million visitors annually.
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