A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success and Reckoning - Couverture rigide

Paternot, Stephen; Essex, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0471007862 ISBN 13 : 9780471007869

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001

Synopsis

This work is a positive, inspirational account of a dream that survived the birth and maturation of an industry whose greatest successes are believed to lie ahead. It is a narrative that is part adventure story, part romance, and part documentary of an era that business will never experience again. This is the story of one man's wildest dreams come true and the dramatic chronicling of the inception and evolution of an industry.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The quintessential story of the American dream played out in the late 1990s market mania
In the volatile, fast–paced Internet industry, you can go from being a hero to losing it all in a nanosecond. Stephan Paternot knows this all too well. The poster child for Internet excess, his name became synonymous with the
market mania of the late 1990s. This fascinating book is the inspirational story of how one man′s wildest dreams came true as well as the dramatic chronicling of the inception and evolution of an entire industry. Packed with behind–the–scenes details and little known facts, the book reveals the personal and professional motivations that inspired Paternot to found theglobe.com with partner Todd Krizelman at the age of twenty. Theglobe.com marked the beginning of enthusiastic funding, the high–flying stock prices, and incredible IPOs. A Very Public Offering is a positive, inspirational account of a dream that survived the birth and maturation of an industry. It is a riveting narrative that is part adventure story, part romance, and part documentary of an era that business will never experience again.
Stephan Paternot (New York, NY) cofounded theglobe.com in 1994, the company that would be the first to experience IPO euphoria, setting off the outrageous stock and valuation phenomena that followed in the industry. The company has been ranked a top fifty site worldwide by MediaMetrix and has accumulated $30 million in revenues in 2000. Andrew Essex (New York, NY) is the articles editor for Details magazine and continues to publish articles in the New Yorker, Harper′s, Elle, Details, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times.

Quatrième de couverture

"Like a modern–day Dickens, Stephan Paternot witnessed the best and worst of times."
–––L.A. Times

"Stephan Paternot has incredible drive, the kind of drive you see in people once in a lifetime. He′s a young Richard Branson. He has this ′positive irreverence′ that allows him to tackle incredible things against all odds and the establishment, and lift people with his vision and enthusiasm. What he did with theglobe.com is purely phenomenal. He made business history."
–––Laurent Massa
Co–founder and former CEO of Xoom.com

"Even for one who was there, Stephan′s recounting of the entrepreneurial journey of theglobe.com is a great read. It brings back the thrills and spills of this Internet saga. Those reading it afresh are in for a real treat."
–––David H. Horowitz
"Angel" investor and former CEO of MTV Networks

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471007862
• ISBN 13: 9780471007869
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible