Brad and Jeff Dryer built SI from scratch, went online 01aug95, at least that's when their bios are dated, or possibly re-dated [notice wide difference in number] -
Brad - Member 35191
Jeff - Member 120356
Their father [i believe] Barry has bio of same date, don't recall he ever had any equity position - Member 28203
Jill [née McKinney] was admin from some point '96 or '97 through to sale, was cut in for a slice of equity by the Dryers if memory serves, think she either had more posts than this or had other admin bio [though i do recall a taste of her elegant whip by PM, may have been preferred style] - Member 2269348
Spring of '98, SI is sold to GNET
GNET is taken over by Infospace
GNET/Infospace run it absolutely into ground, and among other things, fire Bob Z who had started as admin alongside Jill - Member 4591117
Bob Z goes on to build up iHub, to which he is referring in that piece from another site N Dixon posted ... gets it going pretty well, many SIers including myself defect, being more than a little disgusted by management du jour
Bob Z then buys SI for a tiny fraction of the Dryers' sale to GNET, from Infospace or whoever had it, receiver or somebody
Bob Z then sells SI to ADVFN, stays on for some time as admin/manager
Bob Z takes it over again 22jun09
Brad takes it over from Bob Z 01jul11
Brad sells it to current mgmt 19jan13
Can't recall a Dave mentioned as owner, Dale ... admin yes, for some time with Bob and Brad ... have i missed another ownership period by Brad? - something tickling back of mind ... if not, the above gives eight ownership periods in sixteen and a half years, average hair over two years, and we're going on half-way through this current period, looks like it's Dave's turn next, better pray he wins the lottery and lives healthy, conserves his energy
Quite a vivid memory, is the one from Brad announcing the sale to GNET ... i thought damn, we won't all get to buy shares, keep it together and righteous for the long run, but the big bucks blowing around during the inflation of the dotcom bubble were just overwhelming, could hardly blame them ... bought it back for a tiny fraction anyway, so it goes ... and, there it went, for the time being |
