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Dec 2023
49m 25s

(IHP) TheGlobe.com Saga Part I

Brian McCullough
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The story of the quintessential dotcom company. Also, if you squint, you can see the birth of social media. I said in the book, I think TheGlobe.com was the quintessential dot-com company. We spoke to one of the cofounders previously, Todd Krizelman. Todd was great, but he was time constrained and he didn’t quite get as personal about the story as I would ha ... Show More
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