Jeff Pulver said today that he has resigned from the board of Pulvermedia, the company he founded. Pulver is a pioneer in the VoIP world and Pulvermedia — the company behind the VON conferences and magazine — has been a rallying point in the VoIP community.
As Om reported last month, rumors have been swirling recently that Pulvermedia was being shut down. TICC Capitol Group, which invested $11 million in Pulvermedia last summer, had expressed concern over its financial state and seized control the company’s bank accounts. It was believed that Pulvermedia and senior management was trying to make moves to stabilize the company, and Pulver leaving at this stage in the game is not a good sign.
Who knows what the state of Internet telephony would be without Pulver’s accomplishments. There are no details yet as to where he’ll land next, but I’m sure he’ll have something exciting coming down the pike soon.
(full disclosure: Our columnist Daniel Berninger is a long-time business associate of Jeff Pulver’s.)
Daniel’s happy-time spin on “Look what Jeff will do next” doesn’t address the large number of vendors and independent contractors that 1) Paid money expecting something to happen, and now have nothing to show and 2)were expecting payment and got screwed.
Plus all the people who lost their jobs.
Things like this happen for a reason and they’re generally not good. My guess is that Jeff was viewed as the cause of their issues which is why he’s been forced out IMHO.
Gaddog, frackin’ Purple-worshipping Mother-frackers.
I can’t see how you can “guess” that Jeff was the cause of the issues when you asssssume that Jeff was involved in the day-to-day operations.
Jeff was never, ever reallany welcomed in Norwood. And the company was being run out of Norwood.
“Jeff, give us a speech at every event, host the parties, keep your fingers off everything else because we ran COMDEX [into the ground without changing it] so we know best.” So he did as he was asked, and nine months later this mother-fracking Viper Crackup lead by Father Jason, er Cavel….