Rotten Tomatoes founder has a few regrets on selling
By administrator | 28 August 2018
Patrick Lee is the co-founder of the world's most popular movie review website but he says he's had a few regrets since selling Rotten Tomatoes in 2004.
"Of course, I look at how big it is now, and things that still can be done with it," he tells Fairfax Media. "My regret is more just not being involved with it now."
Lee, 44, is a serial entrepreneur who has launched six startups in his career, all with the same group of friends he met while studying at University of California, Berkeley.
Starting Rotten Tomatoes
Lee didn't finish his degree and it was when he was working on his second startup, a marketing business, that one of his friends, Senh Duong, had the idea for Rotten Tomatoes.
Duong was obsessed with Jackie Chan movies and started collecting all their reviews.
"Back then you would open a newspaper, it would have a full page ad for a movie and the quotes were always good even if the movie was bad," Lee says. "Our idea was the same concept but to have quotes from critics, good and bad, and give a score." Read more
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