Stephan Paternot

Stephan Paternot is an American IT entrepreneur, known as a co-founder of theGlobe.com, the internet's first social network, during the late nineties dot-com bubble. He went on to become the CEO of Slated, an online crowdsourcing marketplace for film financing, sales, packaging and development.

Early life and education Paternot was born in San Francisco, raised in Switzerland, then returned to the U.S. for higher education. In 1994, while a junior at Cornell University, he co-founded the first Internet social network site, theglobe.com.

Career The Globe's IPO made history when it posted the largest first day gain at that time of any IPO with a 606% increase in price.

Early in his tenure, Paternot became known in popular media as "the CEO in the plastic pants" after he was filmed in a nightclub saying "Got the girl. Got the money. Now I'm ready to live a disgusting, frivolous life."

In 2011, Paternot co-founded Slated, a crowdfunding and development website for film projects. In 2022, Bleecker Street, the indie studio behind The Assistant and Mass, entered a strategic multi-picture, multi-year output deal with Slated.