Philippe Dauman Jr. can't stop flouting taboos. Friends remember his Park Avenue orgies. Family members note he joined Google when his father's Viacom sued it for $1 billion. Even San Francisco, we hear, is too tepid for him.
Viacom's legal spat with Google has the media conglomerate cast in copyright-hating, freedom-to-upload-videos-loving Silicon Valley as a mustachio-twirling villain, out to expose YouTube viewers' usernames and IP addresses. Bwahahaha! Benighted flack Jeremy Zweig has been reduced to leaving comments on blogs in…
Philippe Dauman Jr., the Google-working, startup-launching, party-throwing son of Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman Sr., apparently has taken his dad's job, according to Silicon Alley Insider. Exciting! Congratulations, Philippe! I bet this means the $1 billion YouTube lawsuit will be dropped soon.
I'm a hustler baby, that's what my daddy's made me. The son of Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman gets guff from the likes of Silicon Alley Insider's Henry Blodget for running yet another NYC-hipster online music company on the side from his day job as a "strategic partner development associate" at Google. Don't tell…
Philippe Dauman Jr., the son of the Viacom CEO, has already raised eyebrows by working at Google, on which his dad has leveled a $1 billion lawsuit. A busy young man: Dauman Jr. has also cofounded New York-based startup Yuzu Music — and not, as far we can tell, in his 20 percent time, either. Dauman told Silicon…
