What happened to Raging Bull?
JH: Eventually we sold it to Alta Vista, who in turn sold it to Lycos and they merged it into Quote.com. It is still part of the Lycos family who is now owned by Telefonica. When I became the COO, Raging Bull had 7 employees and was founded by three 20 year old kids who dropped out of college and gave it their all. SM: Where you still based in New York? JH: At this point I was in Andover Massachusetts, at the CMGI headquarters. We grew the company from 7 to about 85 people. We had more than 5 million unique visitors and had billions of page views each month, all talking about online financial information. SM: Had advertising revenues kicked in at that point? JH: Advertising was working, but it was more in the form of lead generation. All of the online brokers were just starting out. Fidelity was online, DLJ Direct as well, and they were paying us lead generation for opening up brokerage accounts. It was certain forms of sponsorships which were working, and we were also selling banner a
