Lars is the man and a good trusted friend :thumbsup

Thanks :) was a good time hangin with you and your hubby in vegas !

you guys are kewl peeps !

I have to say Lars is a model (not talking content here ;-) in our industry !

He runs a clean business, he's a incredibely smart person, very down to earthand he treats everyone like he wants to be treated !!

Lars for President ! :thumbsup

See sig.

Who is this Lars......

2. What happend with the webtv deal?


Ok so I was running cyberzine.com and I took a wrong turn down a road one day in 1994. At the end of this road was a store and on the store was a huge sign that said SYSTEM V internet highway.. This was very unusual hardly anyone even know what the interent was in 1994 and to see a huge sign even more crazy. So I pulled over mind you I was 25 and still wet behind the ears. I walk in and there are like 3 guys running this unix house. I tell them about my site and at that time you gotta understand like I am 1 listing out of like 500 on yahoo. At that time is was Jakebono.stanford.edu there was no yahoo yet but that was it.. So the guy says I know your work I have seen it and think its good. So they say hey you should team up with us. After much wrangling I entered into a partnership with these guys. everything was kewl. One of the guys was a gold medalist in swimming, and he had the gift of gab. We were all ready to move into the netcom building netcom was a dial up ISP one of the first big nationwide ones and we had ties to them. The day we moved all our stuff in the swimmer guy got pissed about something snuck in in the middle of the night and walked with the equipment. I ended up with all his stock in the company since I took over all his work. My partner had registered the name webtv.com and we started doing buisness as this name for our design and hosting company. About 6 months into this company 2 guys came one day and offered to buy the name for 15K My partner said no thank you. We ended up changing the name of the company to IPP.COM internet presence providers, and we let the webtv sitre just be like a co brand. but pushed everyone to IPP.COM some years went bye and the 2 guys came back an said we are webtv give us the name. And they started to sue my partner. Somewhere in there being the dumb fuck i am said you should just have webtv.com since you were the one who originally bought it. anyway long story short because we did buisness as that name we had first right on the name and they had dick. They ended up settling. And i told my partner he was settling too cheap. The next day after he settled Microsoft bought the company they were just waiting on this one deal to go down in order to close th 400 million buck deal with microsoft. hahah he had them by the balls and let it go. He still made out good but he could a done better and i got LARSED. IPP was eventually sold to a public company and I made a nice chucnk of change in tthe hosting biz long before anyone even knew what hosting was. That was the most work I ever did for the least ammount of money though !

Did you find those barefoot people playing bluegrass on the street that live in the Taoist house in Santa Cruz yet? If so, where are the pictures?

Here you go :)

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/arc...es/02local.htm


http://www.centertao.org/ts/

http://www.playingbyear.com/AboutUs.aspx


I have never seen these people but I bet sean has :) Since he knows fucking everyone on the god damn planet !

Gotta respect a man that drive a 1928 Ford -
http://64.156.213.69/car/P1010073_0001.jpg

lars is a cool cat due to his hippy background :)

You know what KK I lie i see the kids on the mall all the time plaing those banjos.. Its like fucking deliverence or something... They are really good.. but this is the fucking west coast.. Man i live in freakville... no no nooooooooooo ok ok I love it i fit in perfect here with th barefoot hillbillies who are prolly multi millionairs. since the average house here is now 715,000 bucks.

Fuck yeah that ride is sooooo sweet I still love lookin at it.

YES, Vote for Lars :thumbsup :thumbsup

I told you it was true!!!

Yippeeee!!!

I love chattin' it up with Lars..... one of THE raddest guys..... bar none.

Whitney :thumbsup

This interview is great, tho I agree so of the questions asked are a bit personal...

"Explain your involvelment in the whole paid-to-surf madness"

3. I understand a major record label sued you, Can you Discuss and how much was it for and what was the result?


I ran a site called mp3board around the time the whole napster thing went down. We got caught up in the frenzy.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cr.../mp3-0028.html

Here is an article about it. The terms of my settlement do not allow me to expand further. Lets just say it was long and painfull I never want to go through any of that again. It taught me all about the legal system and has formed a basis from which i conduct business and decisions I make when getting into new ventures.

Yeh I did not doubt you they are just not the normal people LOL

SWEET. One of my favorite people. Much love to both of you. :)

your the best too girl :)

4. How can I make money just surfing the web?

This is prolly about www.Cashsurfers.com we did a pay to surf the net thing in 1999 - 2000 that was our big non adult success. It was like All Advantage and it was very nice, if I had started it 6 months sooner I would be silly rich. but dot com collpased and money dried up. At the top we were doing 85 million banner views a day, with 1.5 million registered users. www.Friendsurfer.com is the latest round that hs come out of that company and is a social networkign site like friendster and myspace.. It does pretty good for a non adult company.

5. What's it like growing up on a bus with no fixed address?


not too bad actually when your real young you dont remember, and as you get a bit older if you dont knwo whats out ther then how can you want for it :) I did not have a tv full time till i was 13 which meant i read a lot of books. I learned different things than a lot of people growing up in hippyville. Thouggh when I was like 6 I was telling my mom how was gonna be a millionaire and take care of her when i got older. which i have :) I wanted to be a scientist then though. Mix cemicals and blow shit up :) But computers are good too.. I also had a name when i was a kid i would run around my grandparents house with my underwear on my head and I was COMPUTER SUPER LARS ... mind you this was the 70s and no one had PC's yet computers where still science fiction but for the few lucky guys who got to do punch cards :)

How incredibly cool!!!!!! Cant wait for the rest of this one! WTG Scott... great questions!

Hey Scott r the TO boys around yet? WE doing dinner tonite or something?

Call me 295-3338

Whitney

When you hear the name and you see the guy you are not right away tempted to talk to him cause you think here`s another guy that believes too much in himself... But the minute you have the chance to talk with him, you make him one of your favorite person and friend.
Working in this biz would be so much better if they were more Lars around!

Yes I am giving him lots of credit but I am definitely not sucking up to him. Ask anyone that knows him and they will tell you the same thing I just said.

Good one Sleazy! Lars you damn little petit penis!

So far so good....

Very good read, keep the answers coming Lars.

hahhaha you wont say that when i get to the ad in avn heheheheh

I was pissed at that time to say the least, but it kicked our butt big time and that was good. Now I know you I feel honored I've been copied ;)

6. Is it true any highschool graduate is smarter than you?


YES

I am a high school dropout ! I hated school soo bad !

When I was 15 I was in a car crash A drunk driver hit me and my grandpa the day before thanks giving. I watched my grandpa die in that car :( Makes me almost cry just talking about it. I spent 6 months in and out of the hospital.

When i got out I realized I was not gonna get outta school till i was like 19 and just could not take it fell into a deep depression and found solitude in the bottle and other things !

You are a very smart buisnessman and i very much respect the biz you have built! And its always a pleasure to run into you at the shows.

This has been probably the best ambush interview so far that i've read. very intresting life you've had, Lars.

Lars, told you already. No matter how hard u try, you won't have that kiss. ;)
Thanks man. Go back to your questions, can't wait to read what you ahve to say.

Lars, I dont know you, but you sound like a heads up guy! Keep the motor running, the internet is still young and someone like you can take a big bite out of it! And help it grow and grow.

7. Being clean and sober - what's your thoughts on internet parties and activities at them.


After getting in the car wreck and going very hard into the bottle and other stuff for a few years, I found a point at which could not stop and or controll it. It consumed me and beat me down. I quit everythign when I was 17 and have not had a drink or anythign else in those 18 years. My life is much better for it. If I could drink like a regular person I would be the first to do so, but I know for me that is not possible. I have run into very few people that drink like i did at the shows. I think people should get their party on as much as they can thats what i would do :) Sometimes I see a person making an ass of themselves at the show, but then i say wow that person is me all i have to do is get drunk and I will be an ass like that. So that helps keep me on the straight path.

:) thanks

i do know those people.

Now that's pimp

8. Why did you marry your wife? Why did she marry you?


My wife is the star of my life ! We are coming up on 13 years together. She was with me when I was poor and she fed me and paid the rent. I marries her beacuse after 5 years of living together we had not had 1 fight.. i felt this to be amazing ! She is hot and has a great personality. I love her as much today as I did the day i met her. I dont know why she married me I would not date mnyseld she is a saint ~!

Woah this is really gonna take lars the whole day with the long answers he gives :P lol

just spent 30 mins reading it

Sweet!!! I've been waiting on this AI for a while now!

Keep 'em coming Lars. :thumbsup