The players ball

a genius a con man and the secret history of the Internet's rise

The players ball

a genius a con man and the secret history of the Internet's rise
David Kushner
Book - 2019

In 1994, visionary entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2,500 loan to create the first online dating service, Match.com. Only 5 percent of Americans were using the internet at the time, and even fewer were looking online for love. He quickly bought the Sex.com domain too, betting the combination of love and sex would help propel the internet into the mainstream. Imagine Kremen<U+2019>s surprise when he learned that someone named Stephen Michael Cohen had stolen the rights to Sex.com and was already making millions that Kremen would never see. Thus follows the wild true story of Kremen<U+2019>s and Cohen<U+2019>s decade-long battle for control. In The Players Ball, author and journalist David Kushner provides a front seat to these must-read Wild West years online, when innovators and outlaws battled for power and money. This cat-and-mouse game between a genius and a con man changed the way people connect forever, and is key to understanding the rise and future of the online world.

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Tác giả chính: Kushner, David, 1968- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Phiên bản:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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