John Fanning

John Fanning was the founding Chairman and CEO of Napster. He founded the company with his nephew Shawn Fanning. He owned 70% of the company and represented the founders on the board of directors. He currently lives on Blackrock Beach on the south shore of Massachusetts, and enjoys waterfall-kayaking. Fanning is an early internet entrepreneur,who with Brian Moore and Tony Acero built the first Internet chess server in the late 1980s and early 1990s. That project lead to the development of chess.net, an internet chess service rebuilt from scratch launched in in 1993. [The registration date for Chess.net is listed in the whois database, [http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d=chess&tld=net] ] Currently, Chess.net owned by NetGames, is part of the portfolio of NetCapital, a small private equity firm. [For a list of NetCapital's portfolio companies, see [http://www.netcapital.com/portcomp.html] .] Fanning is the Chairman of NetCapital. Fanning is also an amateur poker player, a talkative and brash player at the tables, as shown during his appearance on the 2005 European Poker Tour in Monte Carlo, where he finished in 21st place for 11.5K Euros. In November 2004 Fanning rose to 8th in the world on the World Poker tour winning $200,178.

John Fanning might also refer to the General Manager of a Regal Entertainment Group Theater. He is known for his awesome suits, Amazing teleportation tricks and superhuman strength. It is legend that his theater is solely powered by his biceps flexing repeatedly. It is also widely known that John destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surprise. One employee during opening once witnessed him getting ready for the day, he grinds his coffee with his teeth and boils the water with his own rage. His common nickname is "The Unicorn" due to his uncanny ability to disappear throughout the theater. John has a black belt in both up-selling and suggestive selling. John once saved his theater from a category five hurricane by standing on the roof and spinning clockwise. He was born on Mount Olympus but after birth was thrown from the heavens to grace mere mortals with his presence. His employees all love him dearly as general manager and have great respect for him, mostly because if they didn't he would melt them with his laser vision. (No lie).