The The Welcome to the Internet History Podcast, I'm your host Brian McCullough. Okay, part two of the

Stefan Patterno Mega episode coming at you right now. This is where we got into the meat of the story, the good stuff, the

whole crazy roller coaster ride of being the hottest startup of the dot-com era. And I was originally going to make this the second episode the last episode of this mega episode

But as I was editing this I realized that after we got done with this part of the story,

Stefan then went to talk a lot about what happens after. What happens after you've

been on a crazy ride like this, how you have to reinvent yourself and your life and your career, and he said so many

interesting things about that, about what happens after your first entrepreneurial ride.

For the first time ever on the show, I'm going to turn this into a part three, coming

in two weeks, so that we can give proper emphasis to that whole reinvention story.

So right now, please enjoy part two with Stephen Paterno and the Globe.com story and look for part 3 in two weeks.

You know, what are our options?

It was between San Francisco that

Todd and I thought had no interest in moving back to San Francisco and I felt like San Francisco was too much of a one industry town and I really wanted to feel

plugged into diversity and coolness and I had a

fantasy about what New York might be. So Todd and I decided, okay, New York is

where all the advertisers are, there'll be a ton of talent, we won't have to compete with Silicon Valley where all the advertisers are there will be a ton of talent we won't have to

compete with Silicon Valley all the Silicon Valley companies trying to get the

same talent and New York sounds freaking cool so we went down to New York City and

I think at that point our burn rate you know again doubled up and

Todd and I were back you know trying to grow the business faster maybe we would

raise more money although with 2 million in the bank I think we felt pretty

comfortable in the beginning of 97

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