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stock by shareholders dated September 5, 1996, available from the SEC or via the EDGAR online document service.

80 One of those companies was Freeloader The Freeloader story was drawn from interviews with Jamie Hamilton, Mark Pincus, Amram, other Individual Inc. officers, and articles including “Start Up. Cash Out. Repeat,” in the May 15, 1998 Inc. magazine, available at http://www2.inc.com/search/1128-print.html, and “Freeloader's Free Fall,” available at http://washtech.com/washtechway/1__1/techcap/193-1.html.

81 Suck called it “era-definitely irresponsible” Available at http://www.suck.com/daily/96/08/01/daily.html.

82 “Yosi pursued a wide array of investments” Glabe was quoted by CNet, available at http://news.com.com/2100-1001-220513.html.

82 Amram issued a highly unusual statement Cited in Steven Cooperman and Scott Sklar v. Individual Inc., et al., U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, case number CA96-12272 DPW. Available at http://securities.stanford.edu/complaints/individual/96cv12272/001.html.

82 according to the police report Burlington Police Department case number 96-08786.

83 “I'm not going to invest if you're the CEO” This was from Amram’s recollection.

84 He agreed to put money in on three conditions Also from Amram’s recollection.

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85 he misplaced his driver’s license and couldn’t make the flight Shawn misplaced his license fairly frequently. But it wasn’t always as much of a problem: According to Parker, Shawn once was allowed to board a flight to Los Angeles after he produced a copy of Time magazine with him on the cover as photo identification.

85 When Parker arrived This account of the stay in Sausalito was mostly based on interviews with Parker.

87 Amram told his network The story of Amram’s hiring of Bales and Richardson was based on interviews with all three.

89 Richardson had a personal reason The story of Richardson and Lee was told by both. Richardson’s career history was largely from her, corroborated by Atlas, JK&B, and Interwoven executives.

91 JK&B Capital was flush with money This was from a JK&B partner, the firm’s website, and Richardson.

94 “I’ve always wanted to do something big” Bales’s comments and the account of his youth are from an interview with the Augusta Chronicle, available at http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/071800/bus__129-6438.000.shtml.

94 would identify himself as a cofounder of Quote.com See, for example, “Napster Investors Try New Venture” in the July 17, 2000, edition of USA Today, available at http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/invest/in880.htm. That article also stated that Bales “discovered Napster creator Shawn Fanning.”

95 Fikker joined them at News Direct Sources used for the account of News Direct/ON24 included Bales, Fikker, Chen, Amram, and various news articles.

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