Stephan Paternot is an IT entrepreneur, known as a co-founder of
theGlobe.com
theGlobe.com was an internet startup founded in 1995 , the internet's first social network,
during the
late nineties dot-com bubble. He is currently the CEO of
Slated, an online
crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digita ...
marketplace for film financing, sales, packaging and development.
Biography
In 1994, while a junior at
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
, Paternot co-founded the first Internet social network site, theglobe.com. The company's IPO made history when it posted the largest first day gain of any IPO with a 606% increase in price.
Early in his tenure, Paternot became known in popular media as "the CEO in the plastic pants" after he was filmed in a nightclub saying "Got the girl. Got the money. Now I'm ready to live a disgusting, frivolous life."
theGlobe.com's stock price collapsed in 1999 as a result of the dot-com bubble and in 2001 Paternot published ''A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Success, Excess, and Reckoning'' which covered his biography and the history of theGlobe.com
In 2011, Paternot co-founded Slated, a crowdfunding and development website for film projects.
References
External links
Stephan Paternot's homepage
American computer businesspeople
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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