The Bottom Dwellers
p2p news / p2pnet: The Net is replete with lists of online Movers and Shakers which, by amazing coincidence, often feature employees and/or associates of whichever firms happens to be running a given list. So here’s an interesting change.
From Business 2.0, it includes those described as, “the people you can safely snub at conferences”.
Numero Uno in the Bottom Five is Microsoftee cult leader Steve ‘I’m going to fucking kill Google’ Ballmer, a “lame duck,” according to the list.
Number two is Vonage chairman and chief strategist Jeff Citron – “Time to hit redial, perhaps?”
Netflix ceo Reed Hastings, “likely would have been near the top of our 50 Who Matter’ list.” But no longer.
Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi comes in at #4. Delays and cost overruns, “are likely to make both the PS3 and Blu-Ray nonstarters,” says Business 2.0. “But there’s also another problem, which leads us to Warren Lieberfarb,” in at #5.
He’s senior consultant to the HD-DVD Promotion Group but, “There’s little evidence that consumers are eager to upgrade their existing DVD collections, and by the time the latest format war is settled, most of us will simply download movies in our living rooms instead of hoarding them on little plastic discs.”
Digg this story.
Also See:
Business 2.0 – 10 people who don’t matter, June 22, 2006
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