Minor mishaps: He built an Internet giant, so why is Halsey hurting?
Halsey Minor is the greatest character Charles Dickens never created. But if he had, the 19th century author with the penchant for giving characters descriptively accurate monikers might have given Minor a different last name.
Major was the ambition when Minor founded news company CNet in 1992 with the intent of becoming the top media mogul of the new medium called the Internet.
Major was his wealth when CNet became the go-to site for tech industry news and when advertising dollars began to pour into the company.
Major was his foresight in March of 2000 when he walked away from CNet with hundreds of millions at the peak of its success, just weeks before the dot-com bubble burst and scores of other young entrepreneurs lost their fortunes.
Now, less than a decade later, at age 43, major are Minor's losing gambles and unpaid bills.
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