The Oh, I'm your host as always Brian McCullough.

Oh man, am I thrilled by today's episode. I've been hunting for five years now to try to

capture the quintessential story that would truly capture and do justice to the dot-com

era. I've said on here before and I said at length

in the book I think the Globe.com was the quintessential dot com company.

We've already spoken to one of the co-founders previously Todd Kriezelman

be sure to look up that episode it's great Todd was great but he was time

constrained and he didn't quite get as personal about the story of the globe as I would have hoped.

Well I finally got to talk to the other founder of the globe, Stephen Paterno.

And Stephen, as you'll hear, was amazing.

He shared the whole story, the whole wild ride from a historical angle,

from a business angle, from an entrepreneurial angle,

and also from a very personal angle. We spoke for two and a half hours.

Stephen was so generous with his time and his recollections. I'm going to break this up into multiple episodes because we talk so much and we got so deep into this.

And we actually also had some recording issues as well.

So this is part one and part two will come out in two weeks. This is maybe our longest ever interview.

Maybe my favorite ever interview. This is the dot-com era story I've been looking for.

It's also the story of probably the most important pioneer

of social media before there even was a term for such a thing.

And by the way, that TV show that just came out,

you might have heard about it on

Nat Geo called Valley of the Boom. This is that story also and because Valley of

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