Leaving Flux/MTVN – More Cowbell
This is my last week at Flux/MTVN. I have mixed emotions about leaving. When I left Yahoo! in July 2007 it was for a lot of reasons, but primarily I wanted to find a role that was closer to product and strategy side of the organization – the running of a business. Joining Flux gave me the opportunity to get back to what I love best and work on marketing, product, organizational leadership, and of course doing deals and managing a business development team. It was a wild ride, we cranked out a lot of groundbreaking products and worked with a ton of great partners. The acquisition of Flux by MTVN was a great outcome for our investors and for our employees, and it gave me the opportunity to help lead a team through the often difficult process of integrating with a large media organization. But its become apparent over the last few months that my career path will take me in another direction and that now is the time to go. Good luck and a big thank you to everyone at Flux and MTVN, keep making it happen.
When I was looking through my desk drawer a few weeks ago I noticed that the cowbell that we rang (loudly) when we closed a new partnership and got a new site live was tucked away there, and hadn’t been rung in a long while. Somwhere between being a scrappy fast moving startup and becoming a division of a major media company you stop doing things like ringing cheap cowbells when you get up on the scoreboard. I’m not sure whose bell it was originally, and I hope they don’t mind that I’m taking it with me to my next gig.
Posted: March 25th, 2009 under digital entertainment, flux, social networking, work.
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