Stephan Paternot

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Stephan Paternot
Born (1974-03-21) March 21, 1974 (age 51)
San Francisco, California, United States
OccupationIT entrepreneur
Known forCo-founder the first social network, theGlobe.com in 1994

Stephan Paternot is an American IT entrepreneur, known as a co-founder of theGlobe.com, the internet's first social network, [1] during the late nineties dot-com bubble. He went on to become the CEO of Slated, an online crowdsourcing marketplace for film financing, sales, packaging and development. [2]

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Early life and education

Paternot was born in San Francisco, raised in Switzerland, then returned to the U.S. for higher education. In 1994, while a junior at Cornell University, he co-founded the first Internet social network site, theglobe.com.

Career

The Globe's IPO made history when it posted the largest first day gain at that time of any IPO with a 606% increase in price. [3]

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." [3] 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 [4]

In 2011, Paternot co-founded Slated, a crowdfunding and development website for film projects. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Gorman, Patrick (September 12, 2018). "Q&A: Slated CEO Stephan Paternot On Why Culture Is Key". chiefexecutive.net. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  2. ↑ Katz, Brandon (2 July 2020). "Hollywood Is Still Adjusting to the New Normal of COVID-19". Hollywood Observer. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 Edwards, Jim (18 October 2013). "WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The Kings Of The '90s Dot-Com Bubble". businessinsider.com. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  4. ↑ Hall, Gina (11 February 2014). "Our chat with Slated CEO Stephan Paternot about his platform's progress with film financing". bizjournals.com. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  5. ↑ Wee, Heesun (15 May 2013). "How equity crowdfunding just might upend film financing". CNBC . Retrieved 24 March 2021.
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