Staci D. Kramer
Oct 5, 2009 9:38 AM
Privately held Hearst Corp. has added four executives to its board of directors: George R. Hearst III, publisher of the Albany Times Union, and the son of Hearst Chairman George R. Hearst, Jr.; Richard Malloch, president of Hearst Business Media and SVP of Hearst Corp.; Scott Sassa, president of Hearst…
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Rafat Ali
Dec 4, 2008 2:40 PM
Scott Sassa, the former CEO of Friendster, the founder and CEO of Uber.com, the social network which recently closed down, and the once president of NBC West Coast, among others, has now joined Hearst Corp as president of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, the operating group responsible for Hearst’s interests in…
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Rafat Ali
Sep 26, 2008 11:40 PM
What happened here? Two months ago I met Scott Sassa in our offices when he was all gaga over Uber.com‘s chances. In those two months, it turns out, the investors Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) and previous ones UMG and others decided to pull out, it seems, and his…
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Rafat Ali
May 26, 2008 11:00 PM
Last we knew, Scott Sassa, the former CEO of Friendster, had left his EIR position at Kleiner Perkins and taken over as the CEO of an obscure social network Uber.com. That was late 2006. Since then, not much has been heard about the Los Angeles-based company, and now it has…
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