Producers

Stephan Paternot Net Worth

Published

3 months ago

January 25, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Stephane J. Paternot's Net Worth as of 2024
$20 Million

Stephan J. Paternot was born in San Francisco, California USA on 21 March 1974, of French, Swiss, and American ancestry, and is probably best known as the co-founder of theglobe.com, worth nearly $200 million and one of the top sites during the Dotcom bubble of the late 1990s.

A respected businessman and film financier, how rich is Stephan Paternot? Sources estimate that Stephan’s net worth is over $20 million, accumulated largely during the popularity of his internet business during the late 90s. His assets include major stakes in numerous companies, such as Actarus Funds, Palm Star Entertainment, and Slated Inc.

Stephan Paternot Net Worth $20 million

Stephan Paternot was born to parents Yves Paternot, an entrepreneur, and Mia Heineman, a housewife. He grew up in San Francisco but the family moved to Switzerland for his father’s work. His father co-founded Adia, which eventually became one of the largest (temp) employment agencies worldwide. Stephan studied in Mont Olivet, a Catholic school in Lausanne run by nuns, however, his parents divorced after 11 years of marriage, and Stephan moved to London with his mother. He finished his elementary and high school there in Kensington, and while at the American School in London, he discovered computer science and there his love for computers began. He started with computer games such as “Chopper Command”, then moved towards advanced programming in the Pascal language. Going against the wishes of his father, Stephan went to Ithaca, New York to study in Cornell University so that he could focus more on computers.

While at Cornell, Stephan met fellow student Todd Krizelman, and they became fascinated with the concept of chatrooms while on their university’s computer network. They found most chatrooms unimpressive, and wanted to create a social networking service of their own. Stephan and Todd launched theGlobe.com in 1995, and it attracted over 44,000 visits within its first month alone, so they co-opted other students from their computer science department to work as their employees. Due to their increasing popularity, by the time of their record breaking IPO in 1998, they were worth around $100 million each; this was where Stephan established most of his net worth and assets. However, the Dotcom bubble took a heavy toll on theGlobe.com and its market capitalization shrank by more than 95%. theGlobe.com branched to subsidiary companies and ventures, but they all ceased operations due to mismanagement and class action lawsuits.

Although theGlobe.com was his most popular, Stephan’s net worth can also be credited to many other sources. He is a businessman and internet entrepreneur, founding Actarus Funds, Palm Star Entertainment, as well as the film financing project Slated. Stephan is also an author, who published “A Very Public Offering”, an autobiography of his experience as a millionaire in the Dotcom bubble. He also has played short roles in three movies, “Shutter”, “Wholey Moses”, and “Time Enough at Last”, as well as having five producer credits under his belt. As of early 2017, he is currently working on financing more films through his crowd-sourcing project Slated.

In his personal life, Stephan keeps to himself and is not known to publicly disclose facts about his private life. He is involved as a board member in various foundations, such as the Heineman Foundation, and the Independent Filmmaker Project IFP.org.

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Celebrities

Paul Heyman Net Worth

Published

1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Paul Heyman was born on 11 September 1965, in Westchester County, New York City USA, and is an entertainment producer, performer, marketing guru, and a businessman. In particular, he is a vital member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (a.k.a. the WWE). Heyman’s versatility has made a great impact on his net worth.

So just how rich is Paul Heyman? The latest information from authoritative sources as of mid-2016, estimates that Paul’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during his working life now spanning 30 years.

Paul Heyman’s Net Worth $10 Million

Paul was born into the Jewish family of personal injury attorney Richard, and Sulamita Heyman, actually a holocaust survivor. At 11 he started his first business attempt, selling celebrity and sports memorabilia. His educational background comes from Suny Purchase, New York, and Westchester Community College, where he was also employed as a radio station host and later a producer, and was famous/notorious even then for his bold, controversial and opinionated statements.While still a teenager, Heyman hustled his way as a photo journalist into a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden, and was paid by the company for several photos he had taken. This is considered as a first step into his later career, and which talent he expanded into the creation of a wrestling magazine “The Wrestling Times Magazine^“, and wrote for wrestling publications such as “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”.

Paul then successively worked for Capitol Wrestling Corporation, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in various guises including promoter, producer, trainer, and manager, and then with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a commentator and broadcaster from the turn of the century. Additionally, he is also the manager of such famous wrestlers as Brock Lesnar and a group of wrestlers called Paul Heyman Guys. The training career income is considered to be one of the main flows into Heyman’s account as well.

Paul Heyman pursues a separate career as a businessman as well, as he has also co-founded and co-owns a branding and advertising marketing firm The Looking4Larry Agency, based in New York City. The company is mostly known for its activities in viral video production as well as social media marketing. Heyman employed award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services and their very first client was EA Sports. After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13.

Heyman also launched a multimedia project called The Heyman Hustle, featuring a video of him interacting with celebrities from several areas of entertainment on the streets of New York City, and articles about professional wrestling.

Additionally, Heyman was cast by producer Michael Tadross as “Gino” in the film adaptation of the off-Broadway show “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”, and Heyman also made a cameo appearance in the WWE Studios film, “Countdown”.

In his personal life, Paul Heyman married Maria, but is reputed to be raising their two children as a single father. There is little other private information available to the media.

Actors

Tony Dow Net Worth

Published

1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Tony Lee Dow was born on 13 April 1945 in Hollywood, California USA. He is a well-known person in the Hollywood movie industry because of his long-lasting involvement as a film producer, director and an actor.

So how rich is Tony Dow? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $4 million. Most of it he has accumulated by working as a professional Hollywood actor for more than 50 years.

Tony Dow Net Worth $4 Million

Tony Dow’s interest in the film industry might have been related to the fact that his mother, Muriel Virginia Dow, was a stunt woman and a film double at the time Tony was a child and teenager. However, Tony undoubtedly had some acting talent which was proven when he managed to win the audition for a role in the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” in 1957, despite having no experience in acting at that time. This was the role that had perhaps the most influence in building a solid foundation to Tony Dow’s acting career, even though he received only one award – Young Artist Award in nomination of “Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award” in 1988, after working in the show for six years. It was also a solid start to his net worth.

In the next few years after “Leave It to Beaver”, Tony appeared in several episodes of other TV shows, such as the sitcom “My Three Sons” (in 1964), drama series “Mr. Novak” (between 1963 and 1965) and teen soap opera “Never Too Young” (in 1965). Tony continued working in television up until the late 90s and his net worth continued to grow, for example in 1975 he starred in the popular medical TV drama “General Hospital”.

While Tony Dow is mostly known as a television actor, he has appeared in a few films during his career, including the television horror film “Death Scream” in 1975, comedy film “The Kentucky Fried Movie” in 1977, television comedy film “High School USA” in 1983, comedy “Back to the Beach” and comedy film “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” in 2003.

Acting aside, Tony Dow is also known as a producer, director and visual effects specialist, especially in the science fiction genre, and these involvements have undoubtedly contributed to building up his net worth. Tony contributed to the visual effects of the 1996 season of the phenomenal British science fiction TV series “Doctor Who”, and a few episodes of the space opera TV series “Babylon 5”. He also directed an episode of the American science fiction TV series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” in 1998.

Interestingly though, some people might also recognize Tony Dow as a sculptor who is well known for his brilliant abstract pieces depicting surreal figures.

In his personal life, Tony Dow has never been married and has no children. He is known to have suffered from depression during some periods of his life, which on a positive note has encouraged him to participate in self-help videos, including the production “Beating the Blues” (1998). However, the negative effect is that Tony hasn’t participated as an actor in any film since 2003.