A Very Public Offering

A Very Public Offering
Stephan Paternot
A decade before Facebook, Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman created the first social network in their college dorm room. After a meteoric rise, theglobe.com became world-famous for its billion-dollar IPO, only to quickly plummet toward the depths. This very personal history details what it was like to witness the chaotic birth of the internet industry.
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About the Author

STEPHAN PATERNOT is co-founder & CEO of Slated, the world’s first online film finance marketplace, and best known for co-founding one of the first Internet community sites, theglobe.com, in 1994, which set stock market history. In 2001 he published his memoir, A Very Public Offering, detailing his experience at theglobe.com. A Very Public Offering was updated and reissued in 2018 in conjunction with the worldwide release of the National Geographic Television series Valley of the Boom, in which Paternot is featured as a character.

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