Fucked Company

Fucked Company is a web site that was created by Philip J. Kaplan[?] (aka pud) around May 2000 for his friends, initially as a "dot-com deadpool" where players could compete to see who could most accurately predict which dot-com companies would be the next to fold, screw up, or otherwise embarrass themselves.

The site's name is a parody of FastCompany[?], a magazine that along with Upside, Red Herring, and Wired were tireless boosters of the internet tulip mania of the mid to late 1990s.

The site became an underground hit, with users finding out about it via word of mouth. Eventually, Kaplan realized he had a potential money maker on his hands and added free and for-pay services like: rumor listings, discussion boards, even a brief foray into customized porn on demand. As of late 2000, Kaplan claimed site revenues of US $80,000 per month based on subscriptions to his rumor-alert service (presumably most of the subscribers were head hunters and companies keeping track of their competition).

At one point in 2000, Kaplan put the site on eBay, with the bidding reaching US $1,000,000 before Kaplan cancelled the auction.

External link www.fuckedcompany.com (http://www.fuckedcompany.com/)