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Jonathan Abrams
10/14/2004
Jonathan Abrams
A conversation about the website Friendster
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A conversation with the founder of Friendster Jonathan Abrams about the social networking phenomenon on the internet.
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Jonathan Abrams
Jonathan Abrams

Jonathan Abrams is the founder of the social networking website Friendster. Venture capital investors Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital replaced him as CEO of the company with Scott Sassa in June 2004. Abrams remains the chairman of Friendster.

Jonathan Abrams is also the founder, CEO, and Junior Computer Programmer at Socializr, an online service for sharing event and party information with your friends. Jonathan is an award-winning serial entrepreneur who created the pioneering social networking service Friendster in 2002. Jonathan is the inventor of a United States Patent for a "System, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks." Previously, Jonathan was the founder & CEO of bookmarking community HotLinks, and worked as a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nortel.

Source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Abrams
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