So, why not put in the piece where he stood up to that douchebag who stuffed the ballot box at HBS?
Mark has been pretty straight over the years -- why the rancor? Has he been hypocritical about anything -- doesnt seem like it.
And getting fired from Bain makes him a bad guy? Right.
Sorry -- this looks pretty misdirected, and a cheap shot.
hey.
Last time I checked, Fred lived in NYC, and Arrington was the one in the valley.
Couldn't you try and make this about those evil jerks in the city that destroyed the economy trying to corrupt the great white hope that is Silicon Valley?
Making at least part of Gawker self-hating NYC-ers would be awesome.
I really like Anna Wintour, and I think her kind of personality is important in the magazine world to create something lasting and interesting.
That being said, this photo shows her quite the latter days of Emperor Palpatine, and dark side of the force, doesn't it?
Is that a *Newton* on his desk (lower left)?!? And is that somehow not an 8th screen?
@r_wolfcastle: And can you point me to a top ten website which made its bones with the kind of design you are talking about?
Didn't think so.
"superb usability" is proved through usage, not peer review.
Typical.
Yes, Nick was an absolutely *awful* Valleywag editor, but look at his twitter stream -- actually, some nice stuff there, and while sharing a bus ride with him at SXSW is something I never want to do again, it's a perfectly mercenary idea for this book, this time.
Actually, maybe Tim will put a word in and try and create a higher CPM variant for truly local content vis-a-vis Adsense and Adwords.
Can't help but be good for the local news sector to have them paying attention, actually.
Would have loved to Putin try that crap with Steve Jobs.
Oh, that's right - Steve wouldn't be in the audience, he would have been on stage, and he wouldn't be dumb enough to ask Putin a question. And Putin would just be another Jobs fanboy, instead of some defensive paranoid nitwit...
She always ran a tight ship when I worked in her organization at Sun, and instead of nitpicking at Autodesk's results, I would suggest critics check out how a specialized SW vendor was able to thrive and stay independent in the face of a lot of people who would tried for "synergy".
Lot to be said for Yahoo hiring Mz. Bartz. She's going to go in there and kick ass for one thing...
As a guy who runs a news site, I'll say that NY Times kicks ass comapred to pretty much every other newspaper out there. Martin Neisenholtz has really done a kickass job, and the SEO work led by folks like Marshall Simmonds from About.com is second to none.
Now, if they actually encouraged participation and commentary unfettered by pre-vetting, instead of just viewing comments as an adjunct to that stuff the NY Times guys write, they could bigger than Jesus -- but that's pretty unlikely :-)
Yeah, Panetta was my Congressman, too. And I agree with the rest about him being well regarded and able. Did a nice job withe getting Cal State Monterey Bay started, too.
California Uber Alles, bitches.
Suck it Texas.
@Churchill -- "crashing" -- uh, hardly. They are going to keep an increasingly large part of an increasingly large pie.
Even if the ad market goes down substantially, Google's going to remain *the* major Internet ad player, and reap the benefits from a stock standpoint. Even if they do drop 50% for some period, they're going to come out of this on top down the road.
Now, Eric might indeed choose to take on a cabinet position, given that he's a frickin' *billionaire* and Google's in pretty good hands, and it's a cabinet position.
It's not a stepping stone for Eric's career, it's a capstone on a pretty successful run in the valley. He left the CTO gig at Sun to be CEO of Novell, so he's proved to be able to move from a comfortable gig to a more challenging role in the past.
And, we (America, the Valley) could do worse than Eric in that role.
fuck and half you're on a roll today with the headlines. Christ, getting fired has upped you snarkometer by two circles and a snap.
This totally blows.
First Moose's and now the whole damn site.
it really is the apocalypse.
I expected a little more Boutin on this issue. I mean, what's up with hiring the wired guy unless he puts out on the inside dope....
It's really too bad though. I'm always rooting for West Coast media, even if it's part of some NY conglomerate now...
Well, it would really depend on usage now, wouldn't it @glycerin? If they are building up audience and marketshare that are good for packaging up and selling to advertisers, with a nice big cushion of cash, then this might be a good strategy.
Eventually, of course, you need to make your revenues work.
The myspace guys are making nearly a billion dollars annually...so there's a proof point that the basic sector can be made to make revenues in large amounts.
What some journalist should ask is what *are* the revenue efforts over there, and why can't they be building up the infrastructure for sales like their friends at myspace? These are not incompatible efforts with building audience...
I bought the OddTodd coffee mug. it's about the only thing I have left from 2002. That clip should be part of every corporate layoff package.
Let me just point out that Andy was the first angel investor in Google as well.
Actually, having read the orginal post, the key here is that Brad rides a motorcycle...*every* motorcyclist has dreams of not having to futz with the garage door opener while bringing the bike into the garage.
This is just cool.
I'm so glad I live in the Valley. When can buy one of these at Fry's?
Actually -- going into every mortgage and collecting normalized data gets tot he root of the sub-prime issue -- which is no one knows how bad this stuff really is -- if you could go into the couple of million mortgages here and be able to authortatively give the market a sense of what the underlying reality is, that's a great start.
The CDS's *are* a different story and they really do suck -- but since many of them are bets on top of (that's right) sub prime loans, going to the bottom of the mess and putting together real data strikes me as effective
