Stephan Paternot

Stephan Paternot is an American IT entrepreneur, known as a co-founder of theGlobe.com, the internet's first social network, during the late nineties dot-com bubble. He went on to become the CEO of Slated, an online crowdsourcing marketplace for film financing, sales, packaging and development.

Early life and education

Paternot was born in San Francisco, raised in Switzerland, then returned to the U.S. for higher education. In 1994, while a junior at Cornell University, he co-founded the first Internet social network site, theglobe.com.

Career

The Globe's IPO made history when it posted the largest first day gain at that time of any IPO with a 606% increase in price.
Early in his tenure, Paternot became known in popular media as "the CEO in the plastic pants" after he was filmed in a nightclub saying "Got the girl. Got the money. Now I'm ready to live a disgusting, frivolous life." theGlobe.com's stock price collapsed in 1999 as a result of the dot-com bubble and in 2001 Paternot published A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Success, Excess, and Reckoning which covered his biography and the history of theGlobe.com
In 2011, Paternot co-founded Slated, a crowdfunding and development website for film projects.