It's been great folks, but Google offered me a great job as Chief Marketing Officer. It's an offer that's just too good to pass up as you might expect.
My first two hires are Robert Scoble and Jeremy Zawodny who will work as Commander of Misinformation and Director of Busting Chops respectively. We're also annoucing that we're buying Gawker Media so we can shut down Valleywag, and so Nick Denton can finally get some GOOG stock and stop complaining about how he almost bought Pyra/Blogger.
It's been a long strange trip here at AOL for the past four months, and I've loved every minute. However, when I couldn't convince the AOL management team to hold the next offsite at Burning Man I knew my days were numbered. My start date is officially today, April 1st.
Thanks everyone, it's been great--looking forward to a new adventure at Google!
Reader Comments
(Page 1 of 1)2. Jason, while you're at it, why don't you see if you can lure Steve Ruble away from his new venture with Jeremy Pepper.
Posted at 10:37AM on Apr 1st 2006 by Paul Chaney
3. Congrats! I am replacing Scoble'
hope to see you around campus
http://theheadlemur.typepad.com/ravinglunacy/2006/04/the_head_lemur_.html
Posted at 10:44AM on Apr 1st 2006 by alan herrell - the head lemur
4. Sounds great, Jason. As long as you're moving to the Valley, can you mive Burning Man to that 1 million sq foot NASA Amers Complex the Googleplexers are taking over? Who needs the desert, right?
Posted at 10:50AM on Apr 1st 2006 by susan mernit
5. Calacanis writes: "We're also annoucing that we're buying Gawker Media so we can shut down Valleywag"
I knew you were reading my blog. Attribution. Attribution. Have you ever heard of something called Attribution?
see Gawker Media Apes F*ckedcompany at http://www.tempcity.com/bitchless/index.php?showtopic=1308
Posted at 11:18AM on Apr 1st 2006 by Marion Paige
6. So Jason,
Since you are moving on to Google, is there any way you can do something about the Google Romance service? It really needs some work. The contextual ads are a nice touch, but the multiple profile upload is broken. Thanks! Move over Sergey!
Posted at 12:12PM on Apr 1st 2006 by Ryan Carter
7. Eeeeh, is it 1st april joke? I'm not laughing, but my congrats if it is true :)
Posted at 1:01PM on Apr 1st 2006 by Informator
8. Informator... yes, it is. Who in their right-mind would ever buy Gawker Media?
;-)
Posted at 1:30PM on Apr 1st 2006 by Landon Howell
9. Very nice. I'm collecting as many April Fools 2.0's as I can. Let me know if you see any others.
My post is here:
http://start-up20.blogspot.com/2006/04/april-fools-20.html
10. How odd, since my doctor ordered me to quit being harsh and abrasive. So I must relax, calm down, and be more tolerant toward all the things I hate and used to critique.
I plan on changing my alias to Whimpers the Flake.
From now on, I will flatter, praise, and admire all blogs, business models, and marketing strategies. And no more harshing of The Apprentice episodes.
I feel very lame right now.
Posted at 8:29PM on Apr 1st 2006 by v[as-p=E,rs T)h' egra:te
11. April 1st jokes are so Web 1.0.
Posted at 1:30PM on Apr 2nd 2006 by King Bastard
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1. funny.
I am interested in coming along as the director of continuous improvement...not sure if they have one of those at google.
Shawn
Posted at 10:06AM on Apr 1st 2006 by shawn gold