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About Ami Shafrir

Ami Shafrir is an Internet entrepreneur that started his Internet involvement in 1994 with his company WorldSite networks Inc.

Back in 1994-2000, Ami Shafrir owned a 50,000 ft.² building at 8670 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, which back in the ’90s was the first building in the area that had a high-speed fiber connection to the Internet. In 1994 Ami started in his building WorldSite that was providing Internet hosting, Internet payment processing, and website programming. WorldSite was hosting the websites for all major Hollywood studios including Paramount, and Warner Bros., of the most high-profile Hollywood movies at the time such as Independence Day.

WorldSite also had a subsidiary called ComBill which was processing payments on the Internet and was known in the circle of Internet operators at the time as the first one in the history of the Internet to process real-time credit card transactions on the internet. Ami through his company WorldSite was working with banks and the city of Los Angeles providing them online payment systems.



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