Silicon Investor
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Internet Messaging Board and Forum |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | August 8, 1995 |
| Headquarters | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Website | www |
| Advertising | Banner ads |
| Current status | Active |
Silicon Investor is the first website that evaluated the stocks of high-tech companies. Silicon Investor [1] is a social networking service and a tech stock oriented forum where registered members can submit posts and partake in discussions about the , politics, and other topics of interest. It was founded by Jeff and Brad Dryer, two brothers from Kansas City on August 8, 1995. The company is currently owned and operated by Nevada based Knight Sac Media Holdings.
Silicon Investor was launched on August 8, 1995, just a day before Netscape went public. It was founded in Cupertino, California. Devised by two brothers Jeff and Brad Dryer, Silicon Investor was the first Internet community to grow purely out of the web browser. In November 1995, the Dryer brothers relocated Silicon Investor to their home town of Kansas City. The website was financed by Jeff and Brad Dryer’s private funds and the membership fees charged to the Silicon Investor users.
Just under three years after its conception, Silicon Investor was getting over 4 million hits per day, averaging over 100 million hits per month.
"We really didn't have any connections," Brad Dryer told the Associated Press in 1998. "We were just starting from scratch. It was the 'Field of Dreams' mentality: Build it, and they would come. And they did.”
On June 24, 1998, Go2Net, a Seattle-based Internet investment firm, announced the acquisition of Silicon Investor. Go2Net purchased Silicon Investor for $35 million in Go2Net stock. According to the terms of acquisition, Go2Net became the sole proprietor of Silicon Investor while the co-founders, Jeff and Brad Dryer, remained involved as the managers of the website. In the official press release, Russell C. Horowitz, the CEO of Go2Net said, “Silicon Investor is a perfect fit for Go2Net. It is the top Web site in one of the most popular and commercially significant categories on the Web.” Go2Net planned on integrating Silicon Investor with Go2Net’s Stocksite to create an in-depth, finance and investment resource website.
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