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MIT junior sells social networking site
10-18-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)In March 2006, MIT junior Joe Presbey sold Sconex, the high-school networking web site he cofounded, to New York teen marketing firm Alloy for more than $6 million.
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