Stephan Paternot

Press

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Thomson Reuters- June 28, 2008
Q&A About the Actarus Funds

Vanity Fair- March 2008
It’s the I.P.O., Stupid!

The New Yorker

“Online Communities have existed since the dawn of the Internet Era…One of the first was theglobe.com…” Read more
— John Cassidy, May 15, 2006

“Before the Google guys, Steph Paternot and his partner, Todd Krizelman, two twentysomethings who started a Web-based community called theglobe.com, were the rich Internet entrepreneurs of the go-go ’90s…” Read more
— August 19, 2004

LA Times

“Like a modern-day Dickens, Stephan Paternot witnessed the best and worst of times.”
— Christine Frey, Feb 1, 2002

USA Today

“By age 24, Paternot and Krizelman became paper multimillionaires, beyond their wildest dreams. In true dot-com style, the founders grooved downtown at hot spots like Spy and celebrated a new life, one they missed in school. CNN documented their rise, and when America saw Paternot dancing on a table in rubber pants, the two quickly became a symbol for this meteoric time in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley.”
— Oct 15, 2001

The Wall Street Journal

“The book is part morality tale, part fairy tale and part college diary.”

“The book is hard not to like. Mr. Paternot ably captures one of life’s rare moments, when the spotlight is shining on you and you haven’t figured out yet that it will soon go dark.”
— Aug 27, 2001

Newsweek International

“One of the most celebrated money magnets was Stephan Paternot. When he and a patner took theglobe.com public in 1998, the stock leapt 700 percent on day one, a record. Investors went wild. Women wooed Paternot by e-mail. CNN filmed him in plastic pants, dancing on a nightclub table with his model girlfriend.”
— May 21, 2001

Good Morning America

“…two of the original superstars of the dotcom business.”
— Diane Sawyer, May 9, 2001

The Wall Street Journal

“Mr. Paternot and his partner, Todd Krizelman, were the first superstars of the Web-stock boom.”

“Financiers courted them. Women they didn’t know suddenly began wooing them by mail. The two rapidly became regular fixtures on TV talk shows and in a multitude of news stories on the Internet explosion.”

“In retrospect, theirs was a catalyzing launch of the Web boom.”
— Ianthe Jeanne Dugan & Aaron Lucchetti, May 2, 2001

The New York Post

“The duo were on the cover of every magazine and their utterances were treated like pearls of wisdom from the Buddha himself.”
— Beth Piskora, Jessica Sommar & Erica Copulsky, April 8, 2001

Entertainment Weekly

— Jan 5, 2001

LA Times

“Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot…immediately became Gen-X moguls of the internet economy.”
— Charles Piller, Feb 7, 2000

Vanity Fair

“Founders and CEOs of companies with astounding IPOs are becoming minor celebrities-for instance, Todd Krizelman…and Stephan Paternot.”

“…to adolescent girls and some boys, Krizelman and Paternot are Gods.”
— Nina Munk, Jan 2000

The New York Post

“It was the greatest Cinderella story in Silicon Alley history. Two kids fresh out of Cornell came to town with their dorm-built businesss…”

“…the pumpkin turned into a coach in November, 1998 when the company priced an IPO at $9 a share, only to see the shares open for trading somewhere north of $90.”
— Dec 20, 1999

Fortune

“Their story is the stuff of Wall Street legend.”
— Anne Ashby Gilbert, Sept 27, 1999

Charlie Rose

“They gained the opportunity to make their internet vision a reality.”

“…Wow, this is just an amazing story of two young college students.”
— July 29, 1999

The Industry Standard

“At 25 years old, Todd Krizelman and Steph Paternot, co-CEOs, embody the popular myth of kids who got rich messing around with the Internet in a garage. The bonus is that unlike other Net geeks, they have good skin, well-cut hair and fashionably downtown style.”
— Lessley Anderson, July 5, 1999

Newsweek

“…theglobe.com went public in a hugely successful stock offering, making them instantly rich and famous.”
— Adam Bryant, July 5, 1999

Black Book

“Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot [were] at the center of the largest Initial Public Offering in history, and the embodiment of all internet related stock frenzy.”
— Kevin Bisch, Spring 1999