“I had people calling me up and asking ‘Are you the internet?'” the 48-year-old engineer told me. “And we said ‘Yeah,’ and tried to sell them some of our services. We were the only company in the Yellow Pages with the word ‘internet’ in it.”
The internet has changed a lot over the past 25 years, and Conru had a front row seat. In what he calls “being in the right place at the right time,” he started Web Personals in 1993 while doing his de classroom as “the guys from Yahoo and Google.”