UKNM: OK - own up...

[John Blower]

   From "The Times":


West London men are new masters

               of the universe


                 BY ADAM SHERWIN

                 Top e-numbers


  SOMEWHERE in Notting Hill, a male in his mid-twenties

  from a wealthy middle-class family is about to become

  an Internet millionaire. 


  It is a technological revolution supposedly available to

  all, but the most exhaustive survey yet of online

  entrepreneurs shows that a male metropolitan elite has

  already grabbed the reins of the e-commerce boom. 


  A new index of Internet companies called the e25 has

  been created by the consultancy Bain & Company.

  Their analysis of more than 300 British-based

  companies produced a top 25 concentrated in West

  London. 


  The survey, which appears in next month's

  Management Today, gives lastminute.com top marks.

  The site for late holiday and entertainment bookings

  was co-founded by Martha Lane Fox, 26, one of only

  two women in the list. The other is Kajsa Leander, a

  Swedish former model who co-founded boo.com, which

  sells high-fashion sportswear. 


  Second place is given to qxl.com, the online auction

  site sold this month for �280 million. 


  Nearly a fifth of the founders are under 30 but they did

  not emerge from penury. Ms Lane Fox's father is an

  Oxford don and her mother is the grand-daughter of

  the sixth Marquess of Anglesey. 


  The one true rags-to-riches tale is that of Dylan Wilk,

  the 25-year-old founder of gameplay.com. Born into a

  poor family on a Batley council estate, he quit school to

  work for a mail-order fish products company but left to

  get into computer games. He received �2.6 million

  when gameplay.com floated plus shares worth �4.3

  million. 


  The report notes with concern that e-commerce is

  becoming a "male-dominated" industry which is skewed

  geographically. It reads: "When for the first time in

  history we have an industry that, in theory could be

  situated in the Orkneys or Penzance, we find that the

  most obvious discernible cluster is centred in London's

  Notting Hill. Plus ca change." 



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