Sex, Tech and the $1 billion deal
trained as a mechanical engineer and grew up with churchgoing Lutheran parents in northern Indiana. He started the world's first online dating site, WebPersonals, in the 1990's - sold it for a mint and currently owns (probably not suitably for work). It's now one of the most popular websites in the world. According to , its global popularity ranking is 69 (you couldn't make it up).
Conru's business is, we hear, the subject of a . Proof, if proof were needed, that sex and the internet are inextricably linked.
Now, conventional wisdom has it that porn is the great innovator - but there's evidence to suggest for those in the business of selling sex online. So, where next?
Your thoughts welcome. From California we'll be speaking to blogger and author of , . And to Jerry Barnett - MD of and part of the UK's .
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