30 years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon, former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs surprised a lot of people by jumping into the dot-com boom by founding an ad-supported news site called, simply enough, Space.com. He surprised people further by leaving CNN to become the CEO of the nascent site.
Then the tech bubble burst, and like many similar “dot-com” ideas, Space.com seemed doomed to failure. Dobbs left his post as CEO and went back to CNN. Co-founder Rich Zahradnik left as President and was then replaced by Sally Ride – who herself left shortly thereafter.
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