Comments on: Former Yahoo Music GM Dave Goldberg Joins Benchmark Capital

By: Yahoo Loses Its Musical Soul

Yahoo Loses Its Musical Soul — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:50:03 +0000

[...] have a clear vision for what the future of music should be. In 2007 he and former Yahoo Music GM Dave Goldberg told music insiders they must abandon DRM - a year later it was reality. Last year Rogers shocked [...]

By: Yahoo Is Clearly Up To Something Big Around Music

Yahoo Is Clearly Up To Something Big Around Music — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:16:03 +0000

[...] background: Rogers, along with former Yahoo music GM David Goldberg, was one of the first music industry insiders to actively call for [...]

By: pallet jack

pallet jack — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:37:51 +0000

I think any entrepruer in residence, is a “Made” man - most seem to be faces that will later be laid on top of someone elses idea.

By: david hyman

david hyman — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:33:22 +0000

awesome. the web needs to maintain its entrepeneurs. no need to do things like try to buy EMI. ; )

By: grant

grant — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:06:12 +0000

Founder back in 1994? He looks young.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:29:45 +0000

Mr. Purple Haze,

Thanks for the advice!!!

With all due respect, please do not use offensive and condescending language when posting online. Not everyone who reads and subscribes to these blogs is well informed netizen like yourself.

Thanks,

Mike.

By: purple haze

purple haze — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:39:35 +0000

@Mike - you might want learn how to use search before asking stupid questions about people.

Goldberg’s a visionary in the online music business. Unfortunately there are too few visionaries at Yahoo these days (instead there’s a visionless CEO who made $57M in a year the stock dropped 35%).

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:20:12 +0000

apple didn’t convince EMI.. EMI contacted Apple about it.

By: Mark S

Mark S — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:41:12 +0000

Why not just give him his 100 million cut and be done with it ?

By: Mediarati

Mediarati — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:36:51 +0000

Mike, I wish him all the best and would love to me him.
my start ups are focused on the social media and they are veetube.com and mediarati.com just in case.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:29:24 +0000

Mike - He was the founder of Launch in 1994, which eventually was acquired by Yahoo and became Yahoo Music.

By: Beef

Beef — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:25:21 +0000

Mike, would love to meet him. My start-up is music focused but is a killer app designed to be a disruptor of some of the traditional music business models.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:01:01 +0000

What’s this guy’s claim to fame other than being a Yahoo GM? Long time Yahooligans always complain about their non-tech savvy management.

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:14:43 +0000

Maybe he’ll start a YouTube Killer.

We haven’t had one of those yet!

By: Kewtr

Kewtr — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:08:33 +0000

Congrats to Dave, and one small error ‘Goldberb’ instead of Goldberg. Although I kind of like the sound of Goldberb even better.

I don’t know how much he has to do with the actual application, but the Yahoo Music player was quite a bit better than Musicmatch for me. Looking forward to whatever comes out of this.