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The players ball: a genius, a con man, and the secret history of the Internet's rise

By David , Kushner

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2019
ISBN
9781501122149, 9781501122156, 9781501122163, 1501122142, 1501122150
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1499129 bytes)
Pages
272 pages ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Dating services;Dating services--United States;Int

Description

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’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’s and Cohen’s decade-long battle for control.

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