Life Real Loud: John Lefebvre, Neteller and the Revolution in Online Gaming

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At age 50 John Lefebvre hit the digital motherlode. Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet start-up that processed payments between players and online gambling arenas, rocketed into the stock market. Neteller had been a cowboy operation, narrowly averting disaster in creative ways. Co-founder Lefebvre, a gregarious hippie lawyer from Calgary, Alberta, had toked his way through his practice for decades, aspiring all the while to be a musician. With the profit from Neteller and his stock holdings, Lefebvre became a multi-millionaire. Then the FBI came knocking...

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"If Sergey Brin, Al Gore, and The Dude conceived a love child, you might end up with John Lefebvre. Bill Reynolds's Life Real Loud dances deeply into the rags-to-riches-to-gilded-rags story of this cowtown Cinderfella, with bonus tracks riffing online gambling, enviro-philanthropy, and L.A. recording sessions. The larger-than-life Lefebvre, with his out-sized heart, out-sized opinions, and out-sized appetites, could very well end up a Canadian folk hero. Get ready to party." -- Zsuzsi Gartner, author of Better Living Through Plastic Explosives

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Bill Reynolds is graduate program director at the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.