http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/14/whoisrosslevinsohn/ The economics of digital content Wed, 22 May 2013 20:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/14/whoisrosslevinsohn/#comment-98551 Mon, 14 May 2012 22:15:27 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208585#comment-98551 Yahoo as a media company didn’t really start with Terry but that is when it went more towards to the entertainment concept.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/14/whoisrosslevinsohn/#comment-98550 Mon, 14 May 2012 22:13:01 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208585#comment-98550 Pulleasseee! How about some reporting. You know – journalism. The kind where you talk to actual director-levels he’s worked with! People he’s managed and find out what they are saying about him – his track record – and a very different “fail-forward” portrait emerges…

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/14/whoisrosslevinsohn/#comment-98485 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:44:52 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208585#comment-98485 @Sam – was there at AltaVista with both you and Ross during those days. Not only horrid, but rampantly aloof and, towards the end, unethical in co-ordinating his departure. Half Hollywood / Santa Monica and half Silicon Valley translates into a power grabbing fame-whore.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/14/whoisrosslevinsohn/#comment-98458 Mon, 14 May 2012 13:46:11 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208585#comment-98458 Yahoo is a media company? That started under Terry and look at where their stock is now compared to then.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/14/whoisrosslevinsohn/#comment-98398 Mon, 14 May 2012 09:44:42 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=208585#comment-98398 I know Levinsohn very well since our days at AltaVista, the first full text search engine (before Google, yes). He was horrid at AltaVista. When I learned that he was running things at Fox Interactive Media which is essentially myspace, I kept chuckling. Look where myspace is now (what about AltaVista). Yahoo is doomed with this all-talk useless executive.

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