Ian Rogers announced today that he is leaving Yahoo to become CEO of Topspin Media. The company is co-founded by Peter Gotcher who was the co-founder of digidesign and subsequently became a VC (IVP/Redpoint) and is now a private investor. Ian headed up Yahoo’s music and video offerings as far as I can tell. Peter has a pretty good track record and is also an investor in Avnera where I worked. Super smart people so I am betting some cool music offerings (unfettered by DRM) will come out of it. Go, go, go!
Is EMI actually going to do something interesting?
April 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
It seemed like an April fools joke but apparently it’s true that EMI has hired Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. Hopefully this will lead to something interesting! As I (and others) said before new business models are required to revive the music industry and to date the labels’ efforts to take their collective business out of a nose dive seem very uninspired.
