Michael Gunlack, a former Google Ads engineer, built Adblock as a solo operation and generated $44 million in revenue with $26 million in profit in 2017. He started the Chrome extension in 2009 simply because he hated online ads, and never hired anyone.
Adblock was created by one guy in Georgia named Michael Gunlack. Built this thing in 2009. He's been the only employee the whole time.
His LinkedIn, his job description is just a guy. I am not available for work. Please do not contact me about job opportunities.
I did some research on his competitor called Adblock Plus. In 2017, they did $44 million in revenue and $26 million in profit. There's potential that this one guy had a business making all of this money, tens of millions of dollars a year, very likely just off a Chrome extension.
He was an engineer at Google working on Google Ads ads in Google AdSense.
And basically he goes, nah, fuck that, I hate these ads.
