As a journalist covering the first dot.com boom, Paul Carr spent his
life meeting the world's most successful young Internet entrepreneurs.
In doing so he came to count many of them amongst his closest friends.
These friendships meant he was not only able to attend their press
conferences and speak at their events, but also get invited to their
ultra-exclusive networking events in London and New York, get drunk at
their New Year parties in their luxury Soho apartments and tag along
when they threw impromptu parties at strip clubs after raising tens of
millions of pounds in funding. And being a lowly hack, rather than a
super-hyped new media mogul, Paul was able to enjoy this bizarre world
of excess without actually having to be part of it. To help the moguls
celebrate raising their millions without having to face the wrath of the
venture capitalists himself. There was just one problem. He
wanted to be rich and famous too. So, at the age of 25, Paul decided
he didn't want to be a spectator any more. He had been harbouring a
great dot.com project of his own and, with a second Internet boom on the
horizon, he decided it was time to do something about it. In
'Bringing Nothing to the Party', Paul uses his unparalleled (and totally
uncensored) access to tell the real story of a unique group of
hard-partying, high-achieving young entrepreneurs - and his attempts to
join them, whatever the cost.
life meeting the world's most successful young Internet entrepreneurs.
In doing so he came to count many of them amongst his closest friends.
These friendships meant he was not only able to attend their press
conferences and speak at their events, but also get invited to their
ultra-exclusive networking events in London and New York, get drunk at
their New Year parties in their luxury Soho apartments and tag along
when they threw impromptu parties at strip clubs after raising tens of
millions of pounds in funding. And being a lowly hack, rather than a
super-hyped new media mogul, Paul was able to enjoy this bizarre world
of excess without actually having to be part of it. To help the moguls
celebrate raising their millions without having to face the wrath of the
venture capitalists himself. There was just one problem. He
wanted to be rich and famous too. So, at the age of 25, Paul decided
he didn't want to be a spectator any more. He had been harbouring a
great dot.com project of his own and, with a second Internet boom on the
horizon, he decided it was time to do something about it. In
'Bringing Nothing to the Party', Paul uses his unparalleled (and totally
uncensored) access to tell the real story of a unique group of
hard-partying, high-achieving young entrepreneurs - and his attempts to
join them, whatever the cost.
