DISQUS

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.)