Marc de Hond
Dutch television presenter (1977–2020)
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- Marc David de Hond (21 September 1977 – 3 June 2020) was a Dutch television presenter, businessman, author, theatre performer, and played for the Dutch wheelchair basketball team.
- He hosted the television programs Expedition Unlimited for LLiNK, De Rekenkamer for KRO at Nederland 3, and was a regular commentator for poker competitions broadcast by RTL 7.
- Some of his solo theatre performances were Scherven brengen geluk in 2015, Wie bang is, krijgt ook klappen in 2016, and Voortschrijdend Inzicht in 2018.
- In 1996, he gave up studying economics at the age of 18 and started the internet companies Hatchoo with Mark Götz, and Veiling.
- ) was a humorous site where famous internet pages from home and abroad were parodied.
Marc David de Hond (21 September 1977 – 3 June 2020) was a Dutch television presenter, businessman, author, theatre performer, and played for the Dutch wheelchair basketball team. He was also a disc jockey for radio 3FM and Caz!.
He hosted the television programs Expedition Unlimited for LLiNK, De Rekenkamer for KRO at Nederland 3, and was a regular commentator for poker competitions broadcast by RTL 7. In August 2008, he published Kracht, a book about his rehabilitation after a spinal cord injury in 2002. Some of his solo theatre performances were Scherven brengen geluk in 2015, Wie bang is, krijgt ook klappen in 2016, and Voortschrijdend Inzicht in 2018.
Career
Internet company
De Hond was born in Amsterdam. In 1996, he gave up studying economics at the age of 18 and started the internet companies Hatchoo with Mark Götz, and Veiling.com. Hatchoo! (with a nod to Yahoo!) was a humorous site where famous internet pages from home and abroad were parodied. De Hond & Götz also wrote a monthly column for Net Magazine from 1998 to 2001. In 1999, De Hond Jurgens became a partner in the company. In the spring of 2000, they sold their successful internet auction site Veiling.com, based on the American site eBay, to German competitor Ricardo. De Hond, Götz, and Jurgens received shares in Ricardo; the amount involved in the deal was undisclosed. In his book, Power de Hond says that the sale of his company "made him one of the youngest internet millionaires in the Netherlands on paper when the value of his shares went up in a matter of months".
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