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Jeff Bonforte Joins Xobni as CEO
- deleted 19y ago[deleted]
- DarrenStuart 19y agoseems like a smart hire.
- schoudha 19y agoWhy? Xobni is 14 person company, do they really need an external CEO? Also, this particular hire didn't really succeed in social search @ Yahoo.
- DarrenStuart 19y agoperhaps the founders don't have the skills needed to grow the company further so hired the talent in. Also maybe the investors behind it wanted someone with experience at the helm. This is common stuff that happens all the time in funded startups.
- henning 19y agohttp://www.bonforte.com/resume/ http://www.bonforte.com/resume/ seems like he's effective enough that his lack of hard technical background isn't really a problem.
- skmurphy 19y agoHe and Tim O'Reilly are the only classics majors I am aware of in high tech. Perhaps my six years of studying Latin and two years of Greek have been more helpful than I realized. At 35 with all of his accomplishments I am surprised that Yahoo let him go.
- mattmaroon 19y agoBy what metric is Yahoo Messenger now number 1? That seems silly to me. I'm guessing they just count everyone who has a Yahoo Mail account as a customer. I have to think that by actual usage it's still 3rd.
- RyanGWU82 19y agoCongrats guys -- what a week! If only you could have had Bonforte demoing your product and Bill Gates as your CEO ;-)
- prakash 19y agoThe Xobni guys are biased towards folks that have previously started startups be it their investors(YC & Khosla Ventures) or hires -- which is a good thing.