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getting money

JOHN FANNING MAY HAVE SEWN UP 70 PERCENT OF THE ownership of Napster, but he wasn't the only one seeing dollar signs. As soon as Shawn Fanning had told his friend Sean Parker about Napster, the wheels began turning in the nineteen-year-old's head as well. And when Shawn said he was ready to move ahead, Parker sprang at the chance. He tallied up the investor contacts he had made by networking and simply hanging around the northern Virginia Internet scene. One of his first calls was to Ben Lilienthal, whose server he had configured more than a year earlier.

Lilienthal was a good man to know, and he was in a mood to listen. He had grown up in nearby Reston and attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, majoring in anthropology. Always interested in business, Lilienthal returned to Virginia and worked eight months at a small consulting firm, where he watched America Online and others in the area

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