The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History

The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise

â€œAn engrossing microcosm of the internet's Wild West yearsâ€ (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what still powers the internet today: love and sex.

In 1994, visionary entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2,500 loan to create the first online dating service, Match.com. Only 5 percent of Americans were using the internet at the time, and even fewer were looking online for love. He quickly bought the Sex.com domain too, betting the combination of love and sex would help propel the internet into the mainstream.

Imagine Kremenâ€™s surprise when he learned that someone named Stephen Michael Cohen had stolen the rights to Sex.com and was already making millions that Kremen would never see. Thus follows the wild true story of Kremenâ€™s and Cohenâ€™s decade-long battle for control. In The Players Ball, author and journalist David Kushner provides a front seat to these must-read Wild West years online, when innovators and outlaws battled for power and money.

This cat-and-mouse game between a genius and a con man changed the way people connect forever, and is key to understanding the rise and future of the online world.

â€œKushner delivers a fast-paced, raunchy tale of sex, drugs, and dial-up.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly

Country	USA
Author	David Kushner
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781501122163
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	273
PublicationDate	2019-04-09
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2019-04-09
Studio	Simon & Schuster

The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise

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