A Very Public Offering

Stephan Paternot cofounded theglobe.com in the fall of 1994 at Cornell University. He completed six rounds of both private and public financing for theglobe.com, totaling nearly $200 million, and successfully led his company through an initial public offering at the age of twenty-four. In his six years of business as CEO, he assembled a management team including industry veterans from CBS, Saatchi & Saatchi, Dow Jones & Co., and Simon & Schuster. Theglobe.com was frequently ranked a top fifty site in the world with revenues reaching $30 million in 2000. Paternot founded theglobe.com while in the middle of completing his computer science and business degree at Cornell University. Upon graduating in 1996, he relocated from Ithaca to New York City. Paternot is originally from the U.K. and Switzerland where he lived for the first eighteen years of his life.

Acknowledgments; Prologue: A Good Day to Go Public; PART 1; The American Dream; The World Wide What? The Origin of the Internet and How Two Cornell Freshmen Glimpsed the Future; The Early Days: Paying in Pizza and Minimum Wage and the Hunt for VC Dollars: Ten Meetings, Ten Rejections; New York Groove: How 3,000 Miles in a Toyota Corolla Turned into $20 Million; Michael Egan and the Road to the IPO; New York, New York: A Brave New World; The Road Show: 60 Meetings, 20 Cities, 10 Days; PART 2; A Public Figure: Life during Internet Mania and a Heavy Dose of Hackers!; Acquisition Mania; The Double-Edged Sword: The Media Attacks My Black Plastic Pants and My Disgusting and Frivolous Lifestyle ; The Downward Spiral Part I: The Slow Tumble; The Downward Spiral Part II: My Dad; The Downward Spiral Part III: Mutiny and the Decision; The Second Coming; Epilogue; Appendix: Where Are They Now?; Cast; Index.