Internet History Podcast

63. TheGlobe Co-Founder Todd Krizelman

One of the biggest names of the dot-com era was TheGlobe.com. It had one of the most successful and storied IPO's of it's day, and it was lead by two early-twenties co-founders, long before that sort of thing was common. Todd Krizelman (along with Stephan Paternot) was one of those co-founders, and in the offices of his current company, <a href="http://mediaradar.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MediaRadar</a>, he sat down with me to remember the founding story of one of the earliest and most innovative community sites on the web. We're exploring these community sites as a sort of survey of proto-social-media websites, and as you'll hear, TheGlobe was one of the most interesting.If you're interested in reading more about this story, check out the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419695541/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1419695541&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thejocom00-20&amp;linkId=YFDGPHJ2ZU3JEI6V" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success, and Reckoning</a>.See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.