A VC: Al Warms Sells Buzztracker to Yahoo!, Becomes GM Of News
Michael
· 2 years ago
This is an interesting time at Y: Semel's out and the peanut butter is getting tastier by the day; Toby hung on & is doing interesting things with Bebo; YMaps is Lego to GMaps lincoln logs (at least from the end-user side); their service lines are much more elegantly integrated and well-designed.
They still have plenty of work ahead, but I'd say things are looking decidedly better than they were a year ago.
David
· 2 years ago
Greg Jarboe couldn't have even possbily been a better choice?
(Just saying that "they could not have found a better person" is strong words.)
Time will tell.
blogcosm
· 2 years ago
Long-time readers may remember that "Al from Chicago" (Alan Warms) posted a comment here on A VC with a very useful analysis of The Huffington Post raising $5M. That (plus some data I grabbed from Jeremy Liew and Tim O'Reilly) may help explain Why BuzzTracker sold for $5 million instead of raising $5 million. I think it's useful info for Web entrepreneurs. (No credit goes to me; I'm just the messenger.)
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They still have plenty of work ahead, but I'd say things are looking decidedly better than they were a year ago.
(Just saying that "they could not have found a better person" is strong words.)
Time will tell.