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Scott Paterson Online      
I'm Scott Paterson. I grew up in
Upstate NY and went to Dartmouth College where I had a high-speed connection
to the Internet in my dorm room in the fall of 1986 which began a life-long love
of most things Internet including having fun with web pages (e.g. this page).
I came out to the Bay Area in 1990
because I had a job at Novell, Inc. out of college. After six years there
working on messaging and TCP/IP Internet technology, I left to work at Be, Inc. working
on the BeOS. After becoming the Director of Marketing, I later left in 1999 to
work full-time on Saabnet.com which I founded on the Internet in 1988 in a different dorm
room at Dartmouth. It started out as an enthusiast mailing list with 100 Saab
owners in its first year and later grew into a web site that has had over a
million Saab owners visit and which I still work on today. I created and coded
the site myself.
I also founded a non-profit, Poverty2Prosperity.org, in 2008.
P2P makes 0% interest loans to the working poor around the world. My wife had
given me an article from the New York Times about microfinance and I thought it
was a 'totally' amazing idea and I started doing some on my own, but that wasn't
enough. I thought creating a non-profit would allow people and organizations who
didn't have the time to do loaning themselves to just donate their money to my
non-profit and we could take care of loaning their money for them. P2P is over
15 years old now and has 15+ different funds including those for women, single
parents, education, housing, youth (24 and under), artisans, and USA only loans.
Over those 15+ years, P2P has managed to operate on less than 3% overhead (100%
volunteer organization) so, 97% of all donations have gone directly into making
loans. Over those 15+ years, P2P has made over 45,000 loans with a 99% repayment which means the
first donation made in 2008 will still be making news loans in the year 2100!
I founded a second non-profit in 2020 after I started coaching kids
long-distance running in 2018 and later became an official USA Track & Field
youth running club. For the Spring 2024 Track/Road Racing Season (our 13th
season), I coached over 130 K-8th graders from 23 different schools. Check out
their amazing (and joyful) accomplishments in this 4 minute video (I promise
you'll find it super uplifting!!). RunClubMenloPark.org
Other Interests:
I am also very interested in physics. If you want to read a book that will totally change your view of our universe and give a good explanation of why we live in a steady-state universe, check out
Hidden in Plain Sight 2: The Equation of the Universe.
If you are a Kindle user, it's just 99 cents.
I like tattoos. I now have 11 tattoos all below my knees and a sleeve. In all, I have 43 flowers tattooed on my body (love gardening). You can see my tattoo gallery by clicking the linked image below.
I'm also a fan of Deth P. Sun art. I never had much of a connection to art - got
a D in Art History at Dartmouth - but my sister in law, Joanne, introduced me to
some local, young artists and I connected with Deth's work.
I own 20+ paintings, one print, and two tattoos of his work. Click on the image below to see the paintings we own.
I learned how to count cards at Blackjack in 1990. I kept stats in a spreadsheet
for over 10 years and in all that time, I ended up winning about $1 an hour
total... but I didn't lose. I'm even barred from playing at one casino in Las
Vegas.
Want to read a great book about Blackjack - it has great stories and also teaches you how to play:
The World's Greatest Blackjack Book.
I very much enjoy upbeat ambient music and used to curate a radio station on the
now defunct site, mp3.com, that was #1 in the electronic/ambient category. I'm
trying to recreate it on YouTube.
You can listen to it here: Click Here.
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