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De Hond was born in [[Amsterdam]]. In 1996, he gave up studying economics at the age of 18 and started the internet companies Hatchoo with Mark Götz, and Veiling.com. Hatchoo! (with a nod to [[Yahoo!]]) was a humorous site where famous internet pages from home and abroad were parodied. De Hond & Götz also wrote a monthly column for ''Net Magazine'' from 1998 to 2001. In 1999, De Hond Jurgens became a partner in the company. In the spring of 2000, thethey sold their successful internet auction site Veiling.com, based on the American site [[eBay]], to German competitor Ricardo. De Hond, Götz, and Jurgens received shares in Ricardo; the amount involved in the deal was undisclosed. In his book, ''Power'' de Hond says that the sale of his company "made him one of the youngest internet millionaires in the Netherlands on paper when the value of his shares went up in a matter of months".

De Hond was the son of [[Maurice de Hond]] and his wife, Jasmin Busnach. He began a relationship with the athlete [[Remona Fransen]] in 2011; they married in 2019. Around Christmas 2002, De Hond discovered a tumor in his spinal cord. In three surgeries, the tumor was removed, but one of the surgeries pinched nerves in his spinal cord. However, the medical staff did not intervene in time when complications arose, leaving him partially paralyzed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-10-18 |title=AVRO – Voor een breder beeld > TV > Missers > Afleveringen |url=http://www.avro.nl/tv/programmas_a-z/missers/afleveringen/20080415_overige_zaken.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081018214754/http://www.avro.nl/tv/programmas_a-z/missers/afleveringen/20080415_overige_zaken.aspx |archive-date=2008-10-18 |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> They had a son and a daughter together. In late 2018, de Hond was diagnosed with bladder cancer and died on 3 June 2020.<ref>[https://www.ad.nl/andere-sporten/theatermaker-en-rolstoelsporter-marc-de-hond-42-overleden~a0c5f41b/ Theatermaker en rolstoelsporter Marc de Hond (42) overleden], AD.nl, 4 June 2020.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BVH Roller Marc de Hond (42) overleden |url=https://www.bvhoofddorp.nl/bvh-roller-marc-de-hond-42-overleden/}}</ref>

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