That didn’t last long. Pageflakes CEO Dan Cohen, who sold his company to LiveUniverse in April, has left the company to “focus on new ventures.” He gets a gold star for being able to work with the litigious and often-angry-at-TechCrunch Brad Greenspan for a solid four months.
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Bad things, don’t last long. ever. Like working with bossy & angry co-workers!
http://blabtech.blogspot.com
Just pass the milk !!
Arrington, you don’t know the whole story.
http://www.oag..../apr28a_05.html
Eliot Spitzer was going to nail Chris DeWolf and Tom Anderson for having an unsafe online environment as were many other states along with more spyware allegations.
en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bloggers_investigate_social_networking_websites
DeWolfe had aqcuired 8 million email addresses from XDrive and was using them to spam for responsebase, which was a company that sold unuseful products.
answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=86317
ResponseBase actually has a name attached to it:
RESPONSEBASE, LLC
Agent for Service of Process
CHRISTOPHER DEWOLFE
He made a deal with Newscorp that said that if they sold the shares at a lower, undervalued price, Newscorp would protect them from Spitzer, no defunct, and other people who wanted to nail them.
In this way, they reportedly undermined their own investors and Brad, which is supposedly why he started this website
freemyspace.com
As shady as he may be in regards to City Spaces, he did not make that stuff up about MySpace.
Also remember when you reported on Tom Anderson lying about his age? Brad emailed me immediately to confirm that Tom was years older than his profile claimed he was. He even posted on the thread as “stone”
I can’t imagine he hates techcrunch if he takes all the trouble to do that and posts here.
Still here? Please go away. Your anecdotes and logic are worthless.
Mike makes it sound like Brad just sporadically went after MySpace for no good reason. I just want to set the record straight.
Brad Greenspan is the real deal. When all of the dust clears on this Web 2.0 stuff and all the gumps and chumps disappear, Greenspan’s going to still be around. Doing business. Most of the players today aren’t businessmen, they’re programmers and product managers. Keep stacking that paper, Brad!
Congratulations on writing the second shortest article on the site.
http://www.tech...5/25/twitter-2/
That’s the shortest one I’ve seen on here.
LiveUniverse is horrible company. I did some advertising for them (mind you very small ~$500-600) and they never paid nor returned my e-mails – keep the damn money if you want it so damn bad I say. I hope you croak LiveUniverse.
BG a businessman? Don’t make me laugh. He’s not stackin that paper, unless you mean stacking personal checks he writes to keep the lights on and remaining employees paid.
Hey Michael:
Calling Brad Greenspan, a well known CEO, litigious is borderline don’t you think? If I was his lawyer I would send you a nasty letter for coming too close to the line. I would now hesitate to do business with him because of what you just said.
Kudos for Dan and team for building a fantastic site and product. Great work!
Great job Dan, and thanks for all you’ve done for Pageflakes. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting you and spending time with you at an event, and you’re a really smart, great, down-to-earth guy that kicks ass at everything you do. Best of luck in your new venture – and count me in as a user!
Pageflakes was on its way to being bankrupt anyway, they should be happy he saved them from being jobless – not the best decision to invest in worthless companies, but nice gesture i suppose
Dan Cohen is a first-rate person doing biz in a first-rate way. It is L.U.’s loss that he is leaving.
Good luck to Dan with his new venture – whatever it is! Looking forward to seeing it…
…and regardless of all that has been said, credit goes to LiveUniverse for keeping the Pageflakes service running and continuing to invest in it. It’s a great site and many of us want to continue watching it get even better.
I think it’s safe to say that LiveUniverse is the place that companies go to die.
Not surprising. Dan has worked on some great projects and LiveUniverse didn’t sound like a good home. I for one can’t wait to see what’s next from Dan.
Keeps us up to date and good luck!
Me too, I can’t wait to see his next venture. I have little doubt that we will be hearing about it soon.
Entrepreneurs always leave big companies that acquire their companies…let’s not make this a bigger deal than it really is. The acquisition made sense for both companies, and still does. I’m a huge fan of LiveVideo and Pageflakes both, and really like the integration they’ve done and can’t wait to see more. Nice work Brad. Nice work Dan. End of story.
Dan has done a phenomenal job of taking Pageflakes from a small European development to a word-class web application that continues to win awards from the press and receive accolades from its users. I agree with LiveStreamer that the Entrepreneur mindset is to take a small concept, make it big, and then move on to the next small concept — so I think that many of the previous comments read into his departure from LiveUniverse too deeply. If Dan’s success with Pageflakes is a gage, I”m sure his next venture will be just as big or larger. Great work Dan and the Pageflakes team — this continues to be a product I use and enjoy on a daily basis!
The best of luck to Dan in his future endeavors. Pageflakes has been and I hope it will continue to be an online product that I have enjoyed using.
Great job, team!
good job dan!
Tremendous job!! Good luck in your future endeavors, Dan.
Livestreamer: It isn’t just a matter of executives moving on. There has been a downright exodus, both voluntary and involuntary, from all of LU’s acquisitions since they occurred, and most are running skeleton crews at this point.
Best of luck to Dan!
What is the current status of LiveUniverse? are the still in business or its a gone story?
Great post!
Is it just me or did Pageflakes’ numbers look awfully flat ever since Dan was appointed CEO of the company in early 2007? With all due respect and despite what people say the company did not really grow much at all under his wings. Unless you count the increased burn rate as growth. It’s never the CEO’s fault though, is it? Web business and its very own laws and rules make me sick sometimes.
Hmm, I think LiveUniverse is death, it isn’t it? Neither of domains liveuniverse.com, pageflakes.com, livevideo.com are active! I never saw something like this before. Still gone without to say goodbye? Because I was user of pageflakes, I lost from one day to another all of my RSS subscriptions. Why they didn’t drop a message via email to be aware, that company cancels they business?
I think Pageflakes is gone — too bad — I loved it. I was using it over the weekend but its seems like’s it gone today.