valleywag.gawker.com - 3/4/2009
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Amit Kapur , the 27-year-old No. 2 executive at MySpace , is leaving , according to a memo from MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe . It looks like he's planning a startup: He's taking two executives with him. Kapur has good timing — or at least a sense of realism. Despite a series of moves ...
kara.allthingsd.com - 3/3/2009
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Amit Kapur , who was elevated to COO
of MySpace early last year, will be stepping down...
from the position. It’s not clear whether he will remain at the company, but sources say he’s interested in pursuing other entrepreneurial ventures. ...
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Kapur Stepping Down as MySpace COO
myspace.com - 3/4/2009
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I am Generation Forward. I look not backward,
but forward. I reject the selfish ways of the...
past. The environment, the economy, our very security... they're the consequences of people not thinking about consequences. The world I'm inheriting makes me ...
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Citi Forward by MySpace
radar.oreilly.com - 3/4/2009
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A lot of what I've been working on
the past two years has been built on the...
assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change. Social networks have largely been built on the premise of being walled gardens in such a ...
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Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden
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Industry Moves: MySpace COO Amit Kapur Stepping Down
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... Updated: Valleywag has the memo, which notes that Pearman and SVP, engineering Jim Benedetto are leaving to join Kapur's new, unnamed startup. ...
MySpaceID: More social content for the web and a way forward for MySpace
VentureBeat —
... Essentially, it could provide licensed, lawsuit-free music and videos to other sites around the web, tied together with its social network. This is something Facebook is not currently in a position to do. MySpace has already focused on making money through ads, including new ways for anyone to buy their own ads on the site, and ways to target ads based on detailed information about its users. In a leaked memo about Kapur’s departure, MySpace chief executive Chris DeWolfe says as much: “We are effectively monetizing the stickiest sections ...
Friendship with Boss's Wife Can't Save MySpace CEO
Gawker: valleywag —
... one question: If DeWolfe sidekick Tom Anderson is ousted, who will become every MySpace user's default first friend?) DeWolfe always seemed more interested in throwing parties and dating celebrities than solving MySpace's hard problems. Growth has stagnated for the past year as Facebook has surged. The site's interface remains a shambolic wreck which fails at the most basic tasks, like remembering a user's login. Talented engineers, including COO Amit Kapur, have defected. Slingshot Labs, a MySpace spinoff meant to foster Silicon Valley-style ...
Friendship with Boss's Wife Can't Save MySpace CEO
Valleywag —
... one question: If DeWolfe sidekick Tom Anderson is ousted, who will become every MySpace user's default first friend?) DeWolfe always seemed more interested in throwing parties and dating celebrities than solving MySpace's hard problems. Growth has stagnated for the past year as Facebook has surged. The site's interface remains a shambolic wreck which fails at the most basic tasks, like remembering a user's login. Talented engineers, including COO Amit Kapur, have defected. Slingshot Labs, a MySpace spinoff meant to foster Silicon Valley-style ...
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Three MySpace Execs Departing To Start New Company (Leaked Memo)
techcrunch.com 3/4/2009 —
Three executives at MySpace are leaving the company to form their own startup, led by COO Amit Kapur. He will be joined by senior VP of technology Jim Benedetto and and senior VP of product strategy Steve Pearman. They have internally announced ...
Smart Execs Leave Before The Fall.
techcrunch.com 3/4/2009 — When a smart, ambitious executive who isn’t the CEO leaves a company, it isn’t necessarily a sign of trouble. Sometimes that executive isn’t performing all that well, or he/she wants to see if they can make it at their own startup ...
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@ qwt1 : Some people find the comfort of a secure job a lot less interesting than the potential of starting your own company. The latter can be much more profitable and rewarding if successful, and America is a great place to do it until politicians completely squash that. Alex Schoeneberger
MySpace Memo: Three Top Execs Leaving —
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@ qwt1 : Actually, I'm doing the same thing this guy's doing; starting up several companies and leaving my cushy job, and I didn't have to get fired to do it. I just decided I could make more money and do a better job than the #1, so why stay at #2? TruPhan
MySpace COO Leaving to Form New Startup —
The Inquisitr » Technology
MySpace Chief Operating Officer Amit Kapur is leaving the social network to start his own tech company. Two other senior MySpace execs will join him, according to published reports .
Kapur, engineering manager Jim Benedetto, and product strategy head Steve Pearman will wrap up their time at ...
Top MySpace execs start leaving in droves —
TECH.BLORGE.com
When the going gets tough, sometimes the tough just move on to greener pastures. And so it is with three top MySpace executives that are leaving to found a new startup led by outgoing COO Amit Kapur.
Also joining Kapur are MySpace SVP [...]
Three MySpace execs departing, founding new venture —
Webware.com
Three executives from social network MySpace, including chief operating officer Amit Kapur, are departing the News Corp.-owned company to create a new venture.
The two execs leaving with Kapur are Jim Benedetto, senior vice president of engineering, and Steve Pearman, senior vice president ...
Three MySpace execs departing, founding new venture —
The Social
Three executives from social network MySpace, including chief operating officer Amit Kapur, are departing the News Corp.-owned company to create a new venture.
The two execs leaving with Kapur are Jim Benedetto, senior vice president of engineering, and Steve Pearman, senior vice president ...
MySpace Memo: Three Top Execs Leaving —
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