Early Life
In 1998, at the age of sixteen, Cohen started the Jewishnet.co.uk website, an early social networking community which later became soJewish.com, with GB£150, and floated it on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) ten months later. The company controlling the website, which Cohen had a 10–15% stake in, along with investors, was valued at £5 million in September 1998. The Daily Telegraph reported that he exchanged his stake in this company to AIM-quoted Totally plc for £310,000 in an all-share deal; yet when Cohen later sold half of his stake, these shares were worth just £40,000.
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