Written on May 6, 2008 – 2:24 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,
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Good chance you already know that though. It is a well known fact that Steve Jobs only collects $1 a year as CEO of Apple. But don’t be too sorry for him! The board has awarded him with his own 60 million worth private jet and enough options to make him(self) a billionaire.
But there are some technology CEOs that make a lot more than Steve Jobs, and you. Take for instance Ed Zander, the former Motorola CEO who left the company a few months ago made $17.3 million 2007. Seems like a lot compared to Google CEO Eric Schmidt who, just like Steve Jobs, only made a $1 salary in 2007. The same goes for Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin by the way. Schmidt did recive $478,662 in “other compensation” which was mostly spent on personal security. Steve Ballmer’s 2007 salary was $620,000 with a bonis of $650,000 and an additional $9,821 in “other compensation”.
Guess HIS personal security was cheaper.
For a nice overview of what High Tech CEO’s made in 2007 check this slideshow on Network World:
What network CEOs really make
Written on April 12, 2008 – 11:49 am
Simone Brummelhuis, writing about women on the web
As the Web 2.0 conference in San Fransisco is approaching, I thought to take on a look how many ‘female Steve jobs’ will appear on stage. By counting the list of 200+ speakers, 20 are women, so that’s 10%. Among them is somebody whose according to my definition a female hero, Tara Hunt, CEO of Citizen Agency.
Interesting is that of those 20 women, at least 10 still need to submit their bio (10 days before the actual conference), while of the male speakers about 99% have their bio submitted. Come on women, write down your achievements, or if you are to shy, hire a personal branding agency.
Of the keynote speakers, I only counted 2 women. One of the underlying ideas of these series is to promote that more women put themselves, or are asked, on stage. Not only could these women act as role models for aspiring Internet entrepreneurs, another effect of making women visible in the Internet industry from the beginning, is that it may prevent devaluation of the industry at a later stage. Indeed, what has happened in some industries when women entered or became visible at a later stage is that the whole profession started to devaluate, in status as well as money wise. This happened, for example, when women entered the education workplace or became judges or doctors. But since the Internet industry is only 5000 days old…, an thus we are at the beginning of an era, it is in the interest for men and women not to let this happen in this industry.
So, as a tip to the organization of Web 2.0 expo San Fransisco, here are a few American female heroes from my database: Patricia Gallup , CEO of PCConnection. Jean Armour Polly, founder of netmom.com, and the first woman elected to the Internet Society board of Trustees, currently working on connecting rural libraries to the Internet. In this time of social networking by kids a valuable contributor to the discussion. And just to name a few other American female heroes: Nancy Cruickshank, CEO of Videojug, Michelle Pelluso, CEO of Travelocity, Dawn Lepore, CEO of drugstore.com, Rebecca Blood, author of a weblog handbook, Janet Hanson, founder of network 85broads.com, Lisa Sounia founder of Dopplr, Joyce Chung, early stage investor at Garage Ventures, Peggy Liu of Mustang Ventures and Joanna Rees, also an investor. Who else is ready for last minute booking?
Written on January 28, 2008 – 10:52 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,
A few minutes ago Valley Insider reported that Helio ‘founding CEO Sky Dayton is stepping down’ and ‘President/COO Wonhee Sull is being promoted to CEO’ and ended a very short blog with ‘More details coming’. I decided to mail Helio PR and ask them ‘Is it true? Sky Dayton steps down as CEO?’. Within 1 minute I received a reply:
No that is not correct. Sky has been promoted to the chairman of Helio’s board of directors. Our current President & COO has been promoted to the CEO role.
Nobody is stepping down, everybody is moving up! No news here folks, move along. So is Valley Insider making things seem worse then they are or is is Helio turning 1 negative (Dayton stepping down) into 2 positives (Dayton moving up, Sull too!).
I guess we will never know…
Written on January 10, 2008 – 12:31 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,
Jim Lanzone in happier times…Last week Don Dodge (Director, Business Development at Microsoft) calculated that each 1% of market share in search is worth at least $1 Billion in market cap. That may be but Ask.com, which has ‘only’ has 5% of the search market, seems to be struggling.
Just yesterday it announced that it is replacing its CEO Jim Lanzone with InterActive Corp. (IAC) executive Jim Safka. Safka also worked at Match.com, E*Trade and AT&T.
Lanzone had only been with Ask.com since April 2006 when he replaced Steve Berkowitz who left at that time to head up Microsoft’s MSN and Windows Live platforms. Don’t write Lanzone off by the way! He is joining Silicon Valley venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Expect to hear from him again soon.
So what can be learned here? Well, maybe that having a large chunk of traffic isn’t a ticket to success. Monetizing traffic and turning visitors into users isn’t easy. Just ask Jim Lanzone and Steve Berkowitz. Or better yet, lets ask you: how would you monetize 5% of the search market?
Ask.com’s traffic over the last 3 years:
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