- Brad Greenspan
Brad Greenspan is an internet entrepreneur who has been involved in the founding and proliferation of web properties including
MySpace . Greenspan founded eUniverse Inc. in 1998, which went public in 1999. [ [http://bradgreenspan.com/?page_id=2 Brad Greenspan Live About] ] The company survived the .com-bust of 2001 and was the incubator that launched MySpace.com in 2003. Greenspan left his position as CEO at eUniverse towards the end of 2003, after accounting problems which lead to three quarters of financial results having to be revised forced a four-month halt in trading of eUniverse stock. [ Greenspan was removed from the Company and later paid a $750,000 fine to Elliot Spitzer for spyware http://www.marketingvox.com/intermix_exceo_to_pay_750k_spyware_fine-020203/] Greenspan opposed the acquisition, and has been fighting News Corp both legally and publicly ever since.Fox Interactive Media (FIM) HeadRoss Levinsohn recently stated at the Web 2.0 conference that Greenspan was "...a loser" who was kicked out two years prior to News Corp.'s buying of MySpace.com.Fact|date=September 2007 Richard Rosenblatt, who became CEO of Intermix (formerly knowns as Euniverse) and Chairman of Myspace is credited with saving the company from bankruptcy. He increased the market cap of Euniverse from $70mm to $650mm when he sold the company to Newscorp.Even with the loss of MySpace to News Corp, Greenspan has continued to innovate and has established
BroadWebAsia (an Asian internet company),Borba (a health product-line), andLiveUniverse (a social network focused internet company).Dow Jones
In mid-2007, Brad Greenspan presented a takeover bid for
Dow Jones 'Wall Street Journal (WSJ) against News Corp. [ [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/greenspan-outlines-alternate-plan-dow/story.aspx?guid=%7B9FFB2E75-92FF-4C02-AF42-4546DE8297D4%7D Greenspan outlines alternate plan for Dow Jones - MarketWatch ] ] Greenspan was unsuccessful in his bid against News Corp. [ [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118595206198884573.html Murdoch's Next Focus: Business-News Battle - WSJ.com ] ] Greenspan is a fighting force againstmedia consolidation . [ [http://mediabiz.blogs.cnnmoney.com/2007/06/20/a-thirtysomething-white-knight-for-dow-jones/ Media Biz A thirtysomething white knight for Dow Jones? « ] ]History
Brad Greenspan attended
UCLA , where he launched his first company Palisades Capital from his dorm room along with roomate zach phinney.Fact|date=September 2007MySpace
The MySpace service was founded in August 2003 as a new initiative and 100% owned division of publicly traded internet company eUniverse (which later in mid-2004 changed its name to Intermix). eUniverse created and marketed the Myspace website, providing the division with a complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth, and server capacity right out of the gate so the MySpace team wasn’t distracted with typical start-up issues. The project was overseen by
Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's Founder, Chairman, CEO), who managedChris DeWolfe (MySpace's current CEO), Josh Berman, Tom Anderson (MySpace's current president), and a team of programmers and resources provided by eUniverse.Brad Greenspan / The MySpace Report
In October 2006, Brad Greenspan launched a [http://freemyspace.com/ website] and published " [http://freemyspace.com/?q=node/7 The MySpace Report] " that called for the
Securities and Exchange Commission , theUnited States Department of Justice and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance to investigate News Corp's acquisition of MySpace as "one of the largestmerger and acquisition scandals in U.S. history." [cite news
url=http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/277195.html
publisher=ecoustics.com
title=Myspace.com Founder Issues Report Finding News Corp.'s Myspace Acquisition Defrauded Shareholders of More Than $20 Billion
date=2006-10-09
accessdate=2007-02-25] The report's main allegation is that News Corp. should have valued MySpace at US$20 billion rather than US$327 million, and had, in effect, defrauded Intermix shareholders through an unfair deal process. [cite news
url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1141294651.html?dids=1141294651:1141294651&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+6%2C+2006&author=Dawn+C.+Chmielewski&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=C.1&desc=MySpace+Founder+Seeks+Inquiry
publisher=Los Angeles Times
title=MySpace Founder Seeks Inquiry
date=2006-10-08
accessdate=2007-02-25] The report received a mixed response from financial commentators in the press. [cite news
url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061005_397237.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives
publisher=Business Week
title=Was MySpace Sold on the Cheap?
date=2006-10-06
accessdate=2007-02-25] An "initial" lawsuit led by Greenspan challenging the acquisition was dismissed by a judge. [cite news
url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/288111_myspace10.html
publisher=Seattle Post-Intelligencer
title=Suit over sale of MySpace dismissed
date=2006-10-10
accessdate=2007-02-25]Greenspan's report also states that the MySpace program code had originally been the brainchild of an Intermix/eUniverse programmer named Toan Nguyen who made the breakthrough technical contributions to the project. [cite web |url=http://freemyspace.com/history.htm |title= "MySpace: The story of its creation" |accessdate=2007-02-25 |format= html]
References
External links
*http://www.bradgreenspan.com/
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