Avi Schiffman, 17, is the web developer who created the pandemic-tracking website nCoV2019.live at the beginning of 2020. The site gets an astounding 30 million visitors daily. Schiffmann, a high school student, turned down an $8 million offer to put advertisements on his site. “I’m only 17, I don’t need $8 million… I don’t want to be a profiteer,” he said. He was named Person of the Year at the 2020 Webby Awards.
Quote: “While Schiffmann is proud of the work he’s done, he doesn’t want to become a model for how to make a name for one’s self during a pandemic. ‘In the future, I hope pressure is on the WHO’ to make a tool like this,’ he said. ‘The responsibility shouldn’t be on some random kid, but it’s obvious that people want to know the statistics.’ ” — BusinessInsider.com
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