Less than one month ago, Linden Labs laid off 30% of their employees. Just yesterday, Mark Kingdon stepped down as CEO, with company founder Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden) named interim CEO. (Also, CFO Bob Komin has assumed the additional role of COO.) What's going on at Linden Labs? Should we, as users, be concerned about these changes? Do you think these changes are positive or negative? What would your advice be to the new CEO?
FTA: "Our thinking as a team is that my returning to the CEO job now can bring a product and technology focus that will help rapidly improve Second Life. We need to simplify and focus our product priorities -- concentrating all our capabilities on making Second Life easier to use and better for the core experiences that it is delivering today. I think that I can be a great help and a strong leader in that process... More to come, as soon as we all get settled and figure out how best to work together!"
DISCUSS!
Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Jun 25, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=242
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Sep, 2017 update: Although Braincrave resulted in two confirmed marriages, the venture didn't meet financial targets. Rather than updating our outdated code base, we've removed all previous dating profiles and retained the articles that continue to generate interest. Moving to valME.io's platform supports dating profiles (which you are welcome to post) but won't allow typical date-matching functionality (e.g., location proximity, attribute similarity).
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