Begg-Smith wins first Aussie gold at Turin Winter Olympics

Australia’s first gold medal winner at the Turin Winter Olympics is not only an outstanding moguls skier but a hugely successful entrepreneur as well. And he’s only 21.

Dale Begg-Smith is originally from Canada, but he came to Australia seven years ago to pursue his sport.

He left Canada because his coaches weren’t happy when he started missing training camps to work on the internet business he began as a 13-year-old.

That enterprise is now worth $40-million.

Interesting. When the commentator on Channel 7 mentioned that Dale had said that his company has no name and no website, I started getting curious. Call me cynical, but I immediately suspected that he was a porn marketer or a spammer. Unfortunately, the truth is that I wasn’t actually too far off the mark. A bit of digging found that his company is called AdsCPM, and it in fact doesn’t have a website. Any more.

Google has a bunch of hits and the Google cache has some of the pages without images, but the wayback machine was more helpful, showing that the site existed until at least March 06 2005. So why didn’t he want to talk about it? Because his company is in the pop-up & pop-under business. On this geekvillage thread you can see Dale (or at least someone claiming to be Dale) discussing CPM rates and ad structures.

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