Easy come, easy go.
Halsey Minor, the founder of tech news website CNET and an early investor in Salesforce.com, which provides sales and marketing software to companies such as Coca-Cola and Ford Motor, has filed for Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy protection.
Minor founded CNET in 1994 and sold it to CBS in 2008 for $1.8 billion. He has also invested in many other tech start-ups, including GrandCentral Communications, which he sold to Google. That firm's technology became Google Voice.
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