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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 lending themselves to just donate to the
non-profit and we could take care of lending their money for them. P2P is over
18 years old now and has ~20 different funds including those for women, single
parents, education, housing, youth (26 and under), artisans, agriculture, USA, India, Southeast Asia, and a few more.
Over those 18+ 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 18+ years, P2P has made over 75,000 loans with a 98.92% 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 it also became an official USA Track & Field
youth running club. For the Fall 2025 Cross-Country season (17th season), 38 of our runners made it through the
local Pacific Association Junior Olympics as qualifiers for the National Junior Olympics Cross-Country
Championships in Indiana where they raced in 25 degree snowy conditions. You can see some of these kids' accomplishments
in the 4 minute video below (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 (warning: unconventional wisdom) 'steady-state expanding bubble' universe (thanks to attractive AND repulsive nature of gravity), 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.
I like to cycle too and I took a bronze at the New York Senior games to qualify for the Senior Nationals 40K cycling race in Des Moines, Iowa in 2025!.
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Scott's Favorite Links
The Saab Network (I'm the creator/webmaster)
I founded this non-profit in 2008
I founded this non-profit in 2020
Check it out - My server is 100% Solar Powered!
Click Here to follow Run Club on Instagram
Click Here to follow Run Club on Facebook
Click Here to follow Poverty2Prosperity.org on Facebook
Click Here to visit the Run Club Menlo Park web site
Click Here to visit the Poverty2Prosperity.org web site
Scott's Total Time Spent on the Internet To Date...
 I set the Boston Franklin Park course record in 1985 pretty much running it by myself most of the way. I was also a New York State Cross Country champion in High School. I was recruited to run Division 1 at Dartmouth College by Vin Lanana who was the 2016 Head Coach for the US Olympic Track & Field team. By my first year in college, I had run a 4:14 mile and 52:15 for 10 miles, then I got too injured to run anymore so I went back to playing ice hockey. I now coach girls youth running as part of the Run Club Menlo Park non-profit that I founded. We are an official USA Track & Field Youth Running Club.
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