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- Kozmo.com founders step down; new
CEO named
- President of Amazon Quits
for VerticalNet
- The fall of a dotcom
king
- Cyberbuck President Quits Over
Hidden Past
- Red Hat shares dive on
news of CFO departure
- IBM taps new
president, vice chairman
- Amazon, Marimba
lose key personnel
- Two More Execs
Fly the Drkoop
- DoubleClick Names New
CEO
- IVillage CEO Says Farewell
- Cowgirl
Without Wires
- All In The Family
- Five
Questions With...
- Alan Baratz, back
in the Valley again
- Eric Schmidt,
the future is calling
- Incubator chief
comes home to roost
- Profile: Jared
Schutz, founder of Blue Mountain Arts
- Profile:
Austin Hill, president of Zero-Knowledge
- DoubleClick
Brings Ryan Upstairs, Makes O'Connor Chairman
- Returns
Online Adds Two Directors to its Board
Kozmo.com
founders step down; new CEO named
The two twenty-somethings who founded
Kozmo.com and built the Net's largest same-day delivery firm have stepped down,
sources close to the company said. President
of Amazon Quits for VerticalNet
Joseph Galli, the president and chief
operating officer of Amazon.com, resigned after a year to become president and
chief executive of VerticalNet, an Internet company that runs 56 Web sites devoted
to specific industries. The
fall of a dotcom king
Remember Jason Silverspoon, who, in the fall of
1998, was on the cover of Fortune magazine with the cover line, "Could this 19-year-old
be the next Bill Gates?" Where is he now after the fall of the market?
Cyberbuck
President Quits Over Hidden Past
The president of an Internet firm that
offers to protect consumers from fraud was forced to resign after admitting that
he lied about his past and hid his criminal record, company officials said on
Friday. Red
Hat shares dive on news of CFO departure
In a surprise move, the company
hires Red Hat's Hal Covert to become chief financial officer, just four months
after he started his last job. IBM
taps new president, vice chairman
Big Blue names Sam Palmisano to become
its president and chief operating officer and John M. Thompson to the position
of vice chairman in what could be the first stages of a succession plan for Lou
Gerstner. Amazon,
Marimba lose key personnel
As the dot-com shake-up continues, some companies
are starting to see new faces in top jobs. Two
More Execs Fly the Drkoop
The resignations of health site's COO and CFO
come as the company issues a warning about 2nd-quarter losses. DoubleClick
Names New CEO
Former president Kevin Ryan will fill the role, following
months of controversy over the ad firm's privacy policies. IVillage
CEO Says Farewell
Candice Carpenter leaves the women's site behind, as
the firm struggles with mounting losses. A
Cowgirl Without Wires
When asked to describe the wireless landscape, Motorola
senior VP Janiece Webb says it's the "wild wild west - and I'm a bit of a cowgirl."
All
In The Family
Austin Hill seems like he can go on forever about Zero-Knowledge
Systems USA, the company he has built with his brother, Hamnett, 28, executive
VP, and his 56-year-old father, Hammie, CEO Five
Questions With...
The second of the "Five Questions With..." series presents
conversations with the CEOs of Fogdog, Salary.com, Myplay, and Vignette as they
talk about online retail, compensation, digital music, and employee retention
and international ventures Alan
Baratz, back in the Valley again
The former Java chief quits commuting
to NYC's Warburg Pincus and takes over at Firedrop. Also: Another analyst goes
VC, Salon expatriate founds book site, and Enermetrix management gets a shot in
the arm. Eric
Schmidt, the future is calling
Novell's CEO needs to find more fertile
fields for his forward-thinking agendas. Incubator
chief comes home to roost
The founder of The Enterprise Network, one of
Silicon Valley's oldest incubator, takes back the CEO role. Also: new iBenefits
CIO's been around the block; former 49ers quarterback Steve Young hops on the
VC train. Profile:
Jared Schutz, founder of Blue Mountain Arts
Jared Schutz the founder of
Blue Mountain Arts and Proflowers.com considers his greatest professional achievement,
"Bringing smiles to hundreds of thousands of people every day through Bluemountain.com
cards and fresh Proflowers.com flowers." Awww ... Isn't he sweet? Read
Profile:
Austin Hill, president of Zero-Knowledge
Austin Hill, president of Zero-Knowledge
Systems, is quite confident in himself; when asked what failed predictions he's
made, he replied, "All of my predictions come true, it's just a matter of waiting
long enough." Find out more about Austin in The Network at: DoubleClick
Brings Ryan Upstairs, Makes O'Connor Chairman
DoubleClick makes personnel
shifts at the top. Returns
Online Adds Two Directors to its Board
James D. Robinson, III, co-founder
and general partner at RRE Ventures and Chad Waite, partner at Olympic Venture
Partners will both be joining the Board of Directors of the Mercer Island-based
company.
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