“Valley Girls: Xochi Birch” is an informative and interesting article by Maggie Shiels, the technology reporter of BBC News that depicts the stunning tale of Xochi Birch’s success. She is the brains behind social networking website Bebo (it stands for Blog Early, Blog Often).

The teen favourite website now has close to 40 million international users. It stands third to the top two players in the US - - Facebook and MySpace – it is now the number two social networking website in the UK and occupies top slot in Ireland.

“It is such a big sum and it is hard to get your head around it. And there comes a time when you start thinking, ‘well how much can that really buy?’ and you do not really know. It is just hard to imagine,” she stated in an interview. She said: “You heard about many of those other internet firms succeeding by taking off in a bedroom or a garage and I felt ‘yes, we can also do this.’”

The success story of Bebo is quite in contrast to the couple’s (Xochi and Michael) early struggling years when the two literally lived from payday to payday before they could come up with a winning business.