I like Mike. Volpi, that is, Joost’s new CEO. The 40-year-old longtime tech exec is a nice choice to run the moderately hyped online video television site. But I will admit it–I have not been gung-ho on the prospect of Joost–which I have called a potentially “messy control freak of a service.”
Here’s part 2 of my interview with Joost’s Mike Volpi.
See the first post and video about the online television video service here.
Also below, check out a video (and post here) I did earlier this summer from a party Joost hosted for Hollywood content creators at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Leonard H. Goldenson [...]
Joost threw a party in North Hollywood (which is really closer to Burbank than Hollywood) Tuesday at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’s Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre for a small throng of Hollywood folks, most of whom looked to be about 21 years old collectively.
(You can just imagine a big Hollywood muckety-muck telling his [...]
It will be nice to see Danny Rimer back in Silicon Valley this week.
Now London-based, the former SV investment bank analyst and venture capitalist is here for a lunch hosted today by Index Ventures, the juice behind Joost and also a previous little start-up you might recall called Skype.
“From Index Ventures perspective, the world [...]
To: Mike Volpi, spanking new Joost CEO
From: Kara Swisher, seen-it-all-before journalist
Re: Five quick questions for you on taking the new job at the trendy and well-funded online video service
1. Is it just me or does Joost feel like a service only a Hollywood executive could love, with its big-ticket content and stricter programming than the [...]
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