One thing about MySpace – they’ve always had far more colorful executives than the more buttoned up Facebook exec team. Of course, those partying and committing federal crimes days are history with the new team in place.
Or so we thought…
A new group of execs were brought in today. And among them are the cofounders of music startup iLike, Ali Partovi and Hadi Partovi. As usual, we peruse the MySpace profiles of new execs because every once in a while we find a new exec hire that hasn’t actually ever used the service.
All the new execs appear to have MySpace profiles. But just before I signed out of the last one i checked, Ali Partovi, a video he uploaded caught my eye. He says “Here’s a little video I just made for the MySpace sales conference next week (Oct 13-15). They told everybody, “make a video showing how MySpace is YOUR space”…..”
Anyway, meet your new SVP Business Development at MySpace, who is most definitely not buttoned up and boring. We’ve also added this video to his Crunchbase profile. Because we can never, ever let him live this down:
MYSpace-ali partovi
ali | MySpace Videos
This is hillarious … the final shot is priceless. There was some serious effort that went into this video (how many hours Ali?). It’s also nice to see that Ali is a quality musician. I can’t really say that any of this is unflattering but the last shot is priceless.
Ali Partovi is the man. Incredibly intelligent guy who obviously still knows how to have some fun. I wish him the best at the space.
Great stuff Ali
Congrats MySpace on some nice hires (and acquisition).
Ali delivered the goods!!! Bravo!! We need more entrepreneurs like this to express themselves! I’m a big fan of Ali and Hadi. Myspace will greatly benefit from them joining the leadership team.
“live this down” – what the hell has he got to live down? this video is awesome. sure it could have done with a bit tougher editing and made slightly shorter but overall this has to be one of the best “homebrew” exec pitches ever. evah.
Very funny. This is called in-depth journalism, Michael!
brilliant
wow that does sound like a good hire but the problem with myspace is unless your on acid looking for a fun trip the site is like a million really bad web pages.. you can’t look at half the profiles will out getting a headache.. I think for myspace to make a comback pot, shrooms and acid would need to be legalized cause then myspace would rock.. I wonder how many siezers(I can’t spell) the site has caused with those horrid backgrounds.. I mean don’t people understand that if you cant read the text, what is the point of having it..
Ali never ceases to impress me. This is awesome.
ali, you are out of your f’ing mind — hilarious
(I apologize in advance for the overused syntax, but…)
That. Was. Awesome. = )
Amazing.
Ali. I just.. well.. wow.
That….is….brilliant!
Ali, way to step it up!
Funny video I liked it! Is Ali originally from Iran? If yes that gives us hope that soon good people of Iran will get rid of crazy’s like Ahmadinejad and will be free1
this guy is my new hero!
Living in Britain, I’d normally give this sort of thing the stiff upper lip like I did with a recent Google exit song over at your best friends @ Valleywag (http://bit.ly/4vB3tx). This, however, is very smart and classy. Thumbs up.
It is an excellent touch that they made sure their new guys had profiles and this guy, Ari, seems to be really on the ball. Whenever I write to execs at a socnet, I make sure I have a profile as well, and that is just as a potential partner. So much the worse for an employee of a socnet not to have a profile.
I once caught a colleague about to do a presentation at Dell with a Compaq notebook. He said “cmon, they’ll understand”. I said “I’m not going into that presentation if you bring their competitor’s product in”. He thanked me later.
Correction: The guy’s name is Ali. That’s another thing to try to get right the first time. :-/
FWIW, his userID is 4833167 which makes him a really early user.
A man of many talents.
i hope miley cyrus is taking notes.
All I can say is ***Awesome***
Sweat stains.
This is WIN.
hahahaha. nice
wow. almost makes me want to log back in to myspace.
maybe tomorrow!
Ali, I really hope those are genuine stains and you aren’t one of those fake sweaters. Hollywood is too full of them already, try to bring some reality to tinsel town, will you?
All the best,
rob