Friday, June 17, 2005

Venture Capital: Edmond leaves online porn far behind

"Andrew Edmond is running a new technology startup.

But this time, the Seattle entrepreneur said it has nothing to do with the online pornography business.

'I have washed my hands of that,' said Edmond, who co-founded Seattle adult Web hosting company Flying Crocodile and served as its chief executive until 2001. 'I am tired of it. I am done with it. And I will never get into that again.'

In 1997, Edmond co-founded Flying Crocodile -- a company that grew to prominence by hosting pornographic Web sites and tracking the number of visitors they attracted. It was big business, with the company at one time employing 180 people, generating more than $35 million in revenue and operating a data center with 80 racks of computer servers.
Edmond said he regrets many of the decisions that, young and immature, he made at Flying Crocodile. "


[Seattle PI]

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