Comments on: dMarc Founders Quit Google; Could YouTube Guys Be Next?

By: iknowbetter

iknowbetter — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:48:01 +0000

The Steelbergs invented the “human touch” aspect of their “disagreement” with Google. It doesn’t take many conversations with either brother to realize that they don’t know enough about the system dMarc bought from another broadcasting company to want to drive them out. Google continues to embrace every other member of the original dMarc and pre-dMarc team.

By: blogMeTender

blogMeTender — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:21:44 +0000

It’s interesting that Chad Hurley and Steve Chen who founded YouTube also worked for PayPal. (That’s where they first met.)

If you read the last chapter of The PayPal Wars, you’ll see that after eBay bought PayPal, several of PayPal’s top officers left, including Peter Thiel.

So much evidence is available how mergers in general don’t work, especially because of differences in corporate culture. When you know that reality, can you really fault somebody who takes the money and runs?

By: rcjordan

rcjordan — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:36:34 +0000

For some reason, the “brain suck” scene from “Starship Troopers” comes to mind.