Why I Wrote This Book
At Time Warner in the mid-1990s, I became one of the early Internet pioneers,
working as a leader of the team that created one of the first large-scale
commercial Internet sites. From that time, my work has kept me in the midst of a
swirl of Internet development, and my experiences, both positive and negative,
have now spanned the full spectrum of online activities: I was the cofounder of
Time Warner's Pathfinder, which, despite its critics, is now one of the highest
traffic Internet sites in the world; I was involved in the start of Road Runner,
the high-speed cable Internet access service; I served on the board of directors
of one of the leading Internet commerce companies, Open Market, Inc.; I have
been extensively involved with a variety of Internet technology companies; and I
wrote the best-selling book NetMarketing, which was one of the first
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