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Company type | Public (OTC Pink Current: TGLO) |
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Industry | Social networking, media |
Founded | 1995 |
Founders | Stephan Paternot, Todd Krizelman |
Defunct | 2008 |
Headquarters | New York, Fort Lauderdale |
Key people | Michael Egan Ed Cespedes |
Products | Chat, message boards, Computer Games Magazine, GloPhone |
Number of employees | 120 at peak |
Website | http://www.theglobe.com (archive) |
theGlobe.com was an internet startup founded in 1995[1] by Cornell students Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman. A social networking service, theGlobe.com made headlines by going public on November 13, 1998 and posting the largest first day gain of any IPO in history up to that date.[2] Part of the dot-com bubble, the company's stock price collapsed the next year, and the company retrenched for several years before ceasing operations in 2008.