Article: Eclectic traveler from Tinseltown to cyberspace. (Lee Stein, chief executive officer of First Virtual Holdings Inc.)

Guidelines for Stein projects: fun, help others, make profit

Lee Stein always seems to be where the action is.

In 1980, he began working as a business manager to rock stars like Rod Stewart and movie stars like Gene Hackman.

He invested in real estate during the boom years, but sold his holdings just before the crash in real estate prices in the '90s.

Today, he's become a banker in cyberspace -- president of a firm that has created a secure and efficient system for anyone to buy or sell information through computers.

"I like to play on the leading edge," says Stein, 40, a soft-spoken but intense man with a Steven Seagal-style ponytail.

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