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...domain is De la Source, and its master is French businessman Thierry Ehrmann. He uses the 6,900 sq m of interior space as his home, which he shares with two teenage sons, an 80-kg Danish dog and two girlfriends, as well as the headquarters of the Server Group, an umbrella for the 13 tech companies he has created...
...Ehrmann, who describes himself as a Freemason with an anarcho-Marxist philosophy, is intent on pushing the envelope when it comes to social contracts as well as technology developments. "I have always lived in a tribal fashion," he says of his penchant for cohabiting with several women simultaneously. "We show each other respect...
...global group called Net Nobility, which includes 865 rich young techies interested in preparing for the day when the Internet will change everything. "The Internet is a fabulous revolution that will transform not only market sectors but all social contracts and put even the nation-state in question," says Ehrmann, who not surprisingly has a penchant for wearing black. For the last 15 years he has been been bringing the revolution to the world of databanks by mining publicly available information on a given subject, enriching it and putting it online. In doing so, he has upended certain traditional business...
...charging for the privilege. His latest project is Artprice.com, which helps dealers and collectors determine the fair value of fine arts. To create this databank, Ehrmann put together the results of 4 million auctions plus other art indexes and benchmarks as well as information about more than 231,000 artists from the 4th century to the present. To access the databank, an art lover needs a subscription - $20, the minimum, gets you 20 searches - but soon anyone will be able to search the databank on a per-minute basis and be billed via phone bill. Ehrmann also provides wholesale rates...
...Ehrmann owns 95% of the Server Group, which he intends to list on France's Nouveau Marché later this year. His investment bankers expect the group to have a market vale of $169 million. Only one of Server's companies is losing money: Artprice.com, which is already a listed stock. But Ehrmann believes rising traffic (4 million searches per month) and the success of a print edition, Artprice Annual, will make it profitable this year...