Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang.[1][2][3][4] Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film Léolo (1992).[5]
- ↑ "How Rotten Tomatoes became Hollywood's most influential — and feared — website", Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ "Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series: A Fireside Chat with Rotten Tomatoes Founder Patrick Lee - Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program", Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program.
- ↑ "Notable Cal Alumni", Cal Alumni Association, UC Berkeley, February 21, 2018.
- ↑ Stephen Wang.
- ↑ "the Scenes at Rotten Tomatoes" by Simon Van Zuylen-Wood. WIRED. January 21, 2020. Accessed February 1, 2020.