A New CEO for Mitch Kapor’s Foxmarks
by Kara Swisher
Posted on November 17, 2008 at 5:00 AM PT
Last Friday, BoomTown paid a visit to James Joaquin, who has just been officially appointed the new CEO of Foxmarks, the Mitch Kapor-backed start-up that makes a free bookmarking and password syncing add-on for the Firefox browser.
The San Francisco-based company had also has gotten $5 million in funding from Redpoint Ventures earlier this summer. Initially, Foxmarks had been founded and seed-funded by Kapor, the well-known tech entrepreneur, and also got an additional investment from First Round Capital.
With the arrival of Joaquin, Foxmarks is trying to move into a mode of carving out a business with its assets, including using its data and expanding beyond the Firefox browser.
Here is the video interview with Joaquin about all that and more:
Comments
Foxmarks sounds like such a loser. Mozilla Weave is going to clean their clock. Every download of Firefox is going to include an add-on that accesses Weave to backup your bookmarks. Mozilla isn’t even bothering to hurry their effort in the face of Foxmarks.
Posted by Levander Thomas at November 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm