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Everyone thinks Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook gave birth to social media in 2004, but that isn't true. Before there was Facebook there was theglobe.com – the first-ever social networking site, created by 2 guys at the birth of the dot-com era, Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman. They launched it from their college dorm room at Cornell, and after a meteoric rise, theglobe.com became world-famous for its billion-dollar IPO in 1998. Over a six-year span, the company grew to over 300 employees, and the website became one of the top thirty most trafficked sites in the world. Only to quickly plummet toward the depths.Today, Stephan Paternot is co-founder & CEO of Slated, the world’s first online film finance marketplace. Powered by machine-learning analytics, over 1,400 listed films have received over $1.4 billion in investor introductions as of 2018. Over half of 2018’s Sundance Film Festival selections and Oscar nominated films were made by Slated members in producing, directing, and writing roles. In 20