It was a rumor that had been hanging in air, like thick smog over Los Angeles. Mike Volpi, till recently a rising star at router maker Cisco Systems, was said to be joining Joost as chief executive officer. Our sources said it was going to happen, but the Joost press team kept on denying it, feigning surprise at the very notion. Continue Reading
Mike Volpi, new Joost CEO
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8:13 AM PT
[...] Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström and raised over $45 million in venture capital. The company hired former Cisco executive Mike Volpi as its CEO, and in the summer of 2007, it seemed Joost was [...]
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1:16 AM PT
WOW! Small world!
6:12 PM PT
Any chance this is similiar to what Cisco did with Nuova? Top Cisco leadership leaves, only to be be brought back into the Cisco family? Similiar?