Stephan Paternot

STEPHAN PATERNOT was born in 1974 to a Swiss/French father and American mother. He grew up in Switzerland, the United Kingdom and briefly the United States for the first eighteen years of his life. In 1992, he moved to America to attend Cornell University where he earned an Engineering Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. In 1994, while still a Junior in college he cofounded one of the first internet community sites, theglobe.com. By age 24 Paternot set stock market history when he...See more

STEPHAN PATERNOT was born in 1974 to a Swiss/French father and American mother. He grew up in Switzerland, the United Kingdom and briefly the United States for the first eighteen years of his life. In 1992, he moved to America to attend Cornell University where he earned an Engineering Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. In 1994, while still a Junior in college he cofounded one of the first internet community sites, theglobe.com. By age 24 Paternot set stock market history when he successfully took theglobe.com public with a record setting IPO pushing his company valuation to over $1 Billion. In his six years as CEO, he raised nearly $200 million in capital and grew the enterprise to over 300 employees. His Company was frequently ranked as one of the top thirty sites in the world with over 17 million monthly users. In 1999 Stephan won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. See less