Comments on: The Very Last Person Owen Van Natta Screwed Over At Playlist: Jason Bitensky

By: Google Music: What Were Ticketmaster And Facebook Thinking?

Google Music: What Were Ticketmaster And Facebook Thinking? — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:15:23 +0000

[...] deal looks smart even without Google. Add that deal in and it looks absolutely brilliant. I’m no fan of MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, but I’ll give the man credit [...]

By: Bumz Spotter

Bumz Spotter — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:50:19 +0000

I’m not sure which one of you would win the prize for being the biggest pussy. You’re all poor judges of character.

By: autoblog1 » Playlist CFO Mike Sheridan Out

autoblog1 » Playlist CFO Mike Sheridan Out — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:06:32 +0000

[...] the true story is, Sheridan is yet another casualty of Van Natta’s abrupt departure from Playlist, a company he ran for just five months. He left [...]

By: Playlist CFO Mike Sheridan Out | The Good NET Guide

Playlist CFO Mike Sheridan Out | The Good NET Guide — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:46:07 +0000

[...] the true story is, Sheridan is yet another casualty of Van Natta’s abrupt departure from Playlist, a company he ran for just five months. He left [...]

By: Playlist CFO Mike Sheridan Out

Playlist CFO Mike Sheridan Out — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:00:33 +0000

[...] the true story is, Sheridan is yet another casualty of Van Natta’s abrupt departure from Playlist, a company he ran for just five months. [...]

By: Online Social Networking Wars Update: It's all about User Interaction and Time spent | TechFilipino

Fri, 08 May 2009 04:09:46 +0000

[...] got a good executive team (although a lot of negative feedback from their current CEO Van Natta on previous job in Playlist). They also seem to be focused on their MySpace Local which I reported before (here). [...]

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:40:01 +0000

For those folks who are defending OVN… He INTENTIONALLY and KNOWINGLY F**Ked a lot of people and if you don’t recognize that, well… I so hope your sister or daughter dates a dude JUST LIKE HIM.

By: RIck Webb

RIck Webb — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:14:57 +0000

Maybe – just maybe – because they are able to grasp the advanced concept that their facial hair has nothing to do with their potential business acumen

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:46:48 +0000

in related news, paris hilton is still alive and tupac is also still alive. apparently, living in new orleans.

By: youfass

youfass — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:41:41 +0000

Bailing out of the sinking ship isn’t a lack of integrity or ethics, it’s just plain smart. The commenters that you criticize are much smarter than your dumb ass.

By: peace, what a joke

peace, what a joke — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:33:44 +0000

He’s right. Arrington has directly questioned OVN’s character in several posts. This kind of stuff happens all the time mike, it is not news. The promises he broke are meaningless to those not involved, he made a wise decision to jump ship, wise.

By: Second the motion

Second the motion — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:32:16 +0000

His real name is DouchebagLocator.com

By: Dan Caplan

Dan Caplan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:39:32 +0000

What happened to posting about start ups, about finding that obscure new website.

So many great organizations out there to write about.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:23:12 +0000

Hey, it’s the 29th. Where is today’s “Van Natta is a Bastard because he stole my Girlfriend” article, Mike?

By: MoneyBoss

MoneyBoss — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:26:17 +0000

Yes, it’s making money, but not giant windfalls. The joke has to do with the fact that the past 18 months have seen a huge boon in social networking everywhere *except* MySpace. MySpace is basically the same size site it was in late 2007, with the exception that Twitter has come from more or less 0 in that time frame, and Facebook has not only caught up to, but surpassed Facebook.

MySpace has already been introduced heavily to the market, so this isn’t an awareness issue.

Where’s the future growth coming from? Apart from music and comedy (which, hey, might be enough to have a profitable business, but not a billion dollar blockbuster), where’s the beef?

Throw those facts on top of the current leadership issues, and it’s not a pretty picture for MySpace.

By: MoneyBoss

MoneyBoss — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:22:12 +0000

MySpace definitely has size, I’ll give you that. Then again, its growth has been non-existent for over a year, while sites like Facebook have continued growing, and surpassed them.

In this industry, if you’re not growing, you’re dying, and MySpace simply isn’t growing. It’ll be a player for quite some time, but it has been surpassed as the #1 social networking site, and it doesn’t seem possible for it to reclaim that throne anymore.

A lot of search engines have size too (Yahoo, MSN Live), but that doesn’t make them attractive or competitive or having a particularly bright future.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:28:58 +0000

“Anybody who purposely has a 2-day stubble is a 100% douchebag.” lol.

I always wondered why Larry Ellison wanted that Yassir Arafat look…

By: Joe Dawson

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:03 +0000

Lots of aggression here, my eyes….

By: lemon obrien

lemon obrien — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:52:02 +0000

they don’t want to do the work.

By: Fif

Fif — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:25:07 +0000

Please, give us details. Hypocrisy must be specified, not alluded to.

By: Rhet

Rhet — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:00:45 +0000

wake me up when twitter is not just some feature posing as a product or a business

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:12:20 +0000

Agreed, wake me up when Twitter is a business and not just a very expensive hobby.

By: Trailer Park

Trailer Park — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:17:50 +0000

I think Jason should have bitch slapped Van Natta and dared him to a staring contest. A cat fight would have ensured shortly after which Jason would have exited the stage with one promise we all have been waiting for “You ain’t seen nothing yet biach”

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:45:23 +0000

I recently came across a new experience in the valley involving CEOs. As part of my process to build a new startup, I was introduced to an “established” valley CEO candidate. After spending A LOT of time, he finally confided that he was basically broke and had to bring in cash really fast. That shocked me – you should see his BMW, iPhone, the whole “picture”. I don’t know the whole story with OVN but I would recommend all entrepreneurs (tech or not) to do a background check on ANY potential CEOs. A lot of these guys lack so much integrity that you’d feel like you were living on Wall Street – if you could get good Pizza around here that is!

As for OVN, pretty sleazy thing to do. I am glad to see TechCrunch is taking the dill-hole to mat!

By: Hate Tostada Man

Hate Tostada Man — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:01:26 +0000

Tostada a-hole,

you are what’s wrong with this world. Always looking for a way to the top at anyone’s expense.