&gt; <i>AllAdvantage was launched on March 31, 1999, by Jim Jorgensen, Johannes Pohle, Carl Anderson, and Oliver Brock.[2] During its nearly 2 years of operation, it raised nearly $200 Million in venture capital and grew to more than 10 million members in its first 18 months of operation.</i><p>Holy hell! So <i>that&#x27;s</i> where those companies had money from. As a kid I always wondered how those bullshit &quot;install our app, get paid for surfing&quot; companies got their money; it turns out they were burning VC funds all along...