a very public offering
by Stephan Paternot

“This book is hard not to like.”

“Like a modern-day Dickens, Stephan Paternot witnessed the best and worst of times.”

“in this giddy, fast-moving memoir…[Paternot] wisely focuses on the day-to-day mania of the mid- and late ’90s ‘Internet revolution,’ vividly showing what it felt like to run a brand-new company racing headlong across unknown terrain.”

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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, Steph’s name became synonymous with the market mania of the late 1990s after his record setting IPO.

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.