IQ News: Addicted To Cool

The moment David Hyman eyed online music ‘zine Addicted to Noise in 1995, he was hooked. “ATN was the coolest thing I’d ever seen,” says Hyman, newly appointed senior vice president in charge of ad sales for online music network SonicNet, which houses ATN. Hyman, 31, joined ATN in 1996 as “the first paid employee there.” The job was not without its initial pitfalls. “It was really scary,” recalls Hyman. “I said to Michael [Goldberg, editor and founder of ATN], you’ve got to get a media kit together and he said, ‘What’s that?’ We’ve come a long way since.”
So has he.