Late last year, only 500 people were using the Web site that Andrey Ternovskiy launched. Now Chatroulette gets around 1.5 million visitors daily. With Russian billionaires offering him cash and Google on the other line, the Moscow teenager has to make a decision: America or Russia?

A car with dark tinted windows rolls up to an ordinary-looking, lanky teenager in an ordinary neighborhood in northern Moscow. A man in a black suit opens the door of the limousine. "Are you ready, Andrey?" he calls. "We're interested in what you're doing. Jump in!"

In baggy jeans and with short brown hair, Andrey Ternovskiy, 17, is a notorious truant; he doesn't go to school as much as he should. And as he seats himself on the leather upholstered backseat of the limousine, he wonders what the man - Felix, with whom he has only been in touch online and on the telephone - will offer. A million Euros? Or maybe three?

Because Felix represents people who have money to spend. And Ternovskiy has what all people with money want: A brilliant idea.