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Jost: Planet Series was Europe's largest TV site and sold to AlloCiné

Matthew Jost · EP 500: $5M Funding, $1.3M Revenue For LGBT Lifestyle Traveling like AirBNB with CEO Matthieu Jost · Dec 6, 2016 · at 1:59

Matthieu Jost, co-founder and CEO of misterb&b, discusses his first entrepreneurial exit before launching his gay travel hospitality platform.

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“So it was a website dedicated to TV series, and it was the largest website to TV series in Europe, and I sold it to the French equivalent of IMDB, which called Allocine.”

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The claim, plainly

Matthieu Jost sold Planet Series, a European TV series website, to French cinema and TV database company AlloCiné.

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Assessment

Contemporary media reports and official documentation confirm that Matthieu Jost co-founded Taplanete.net in 2003, whose primary flagship TV portal was planete-series.com (Planet Series). In November 2004, AlloCiné acquired an equity stake in Taplanete.net, followed by full acquisition and integration of planete-series.com into AlloCiné's TV series portal in April 2005, which was also later confirmed in a 2012 French Ministry of Culture report.

Clubic reported on November 15, 2004, that AlloCiné took an equity stake in Taplanete.net, the publisher operating planete-series.com co-founded by Matthieu Jost.
Clubic reported on April 22, 2005, that Allocine.com fully integrated planete-series.com to establish its dedicated television series database.
A 2012 report by the French Ministry of Culture ('Entreprises culturelles et Internet') confirmed that AlloCiné acquired Taplanete.net to launch its TV series portal.

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[1] clubic.com [2] clubic.com [3] culture.gouv.fr [4] einpresswire.com [5] podchaser.com [6] wellfound.com

"Matthieu Jost" "AlloCiné" "planete-series.com" "AlloCine" OR "AlloCiné" "Matthieu Jost" "Allocine" "Taplanete.net" "AlloCine" OR "AlloCiné" "Matthieu Jost" "Planet-series" OR "PlanetSeries"

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