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Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor once proposed that the Globe put up $1 million for an ownership stake that would give the paper a chance to put its lucrative classified advertising business online. Steve Taylor, who was executive vice president of the Globe during those discussions, tells Robert Weisman: “I’m sorry to tell you that’s an absolutely true story.”
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Boston Globe decided against investing in Monster.com in the 1990s
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