The Players Ball
A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet’s Rise
About the book
Journalist David Kushner tells the story of Gary Kremen, who used a $2,500 loan in 1994 to create Match.com, the first online dating service, and also bought the Sex.com domain, betting that love and sex together would carry the internet into the mainstream. Only 5 percent of Americans were online at the time. Kremen then learned that a con man named Stephen Michael Cohen had taken the rights to Sex.com and was making millions from it. What followed was a battle between the two for control of the site that lasted a decade. Kushner sets it in the internet's Wild West years, when innovators and outlaws fought over money and power.
Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter praised Kushner's account of the Sex.com fight as fascinating and often funny, a true tale from the web's early days.
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Terence Winter (Creator, Writer, Executive Producer/Boardwalk Empire)
The epic battle of the internet visionary behind sex.com and the man who stole it right out from under him, making millions in the process. David Kushner brilliantly tells a fascinating and often hilarious true story about the early days of the web.
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