Eric Hippeau

Two Years and $33 Million Later, Start-Up Investor Lerer Ventures Starts Building Its Own Companies

Peter Kafka in Media on April 5 at 7:02 am PT

Like lots of other investors, Ken Lerer, Ben Lerer and Eric Hippeau are plowing money into start-ups. Unlike some of the other guys, they’re making some of them themselves.

HuffPo Co-Founder Ken Lerer’s Stealthy Start-Up Aims at CNN, Fox

Peter Kafka in Media on March 27 at 6:48 am PT

Ken Lerer helped build an Internet news powerhouse out of thin air. Now he wants to do it again — this time using video.

To Stanch Layoffs, Yahoo Has Been Shopping Its Ad Technology Platforms to Google, Microsoft and Others

Kara Swisher in News on March 14 at 8:04 am PT

There’s always yet another wacky money-making scheme on the horizon at Yahoo!

Huffington Post Tech Boss Leaves AOL, For Real

Peter Kafka in Media on January 10 at 3:42 pm PT

Like almost every other top Huffpo executive from the pre-AOL days, Paul Berry is on to something else — which happens to involve working with a lot of former Huffpo executives.

My Picks for Yahoo’s Next CEO — Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.

Lerer Ventures Considers New $50 Million Fund With Hippeau Addition

Kara Swisher in News on February 8, 2011 at 10:17 am PT

One of the more interesting pieces of news that got pushed deep down in stories in the noisy swirl around AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post was the move of its CEO Eric Hippeau back to the investor side. He’ll be going to Lerer Ventures, which is run by HuffPo co-founder, chairman and major investor Kenneth Lerer, and is contemplating a big expansion of its efforts. BoomTown talked to both about it today.

Arianna Huffington on Her New AOL Job: "I Want to Stay Here Forever"

Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 5:55 am PT

“I want this to be the last act of my life,” says AOL’s new content boss. CEO Tim Armstrong’s translation: It’s a “multiyear contract”

AOL + Huffington Post Won't Go to 11. But It Does Make Sense.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 7, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Former AOL CEO Steve Case is right to call out current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s fuzzy math. But that doesn’t mean this is a bad deal.

You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash and Stock, Appoints Huffington Editor in Chief

Kara Swisher in News on February 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites. As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington–who was derided by some when she co-founded the left-leaning site in 2005 with investor and well-known communications exec Kenneth Lerer–will become editor in chief of a new unit that has purview over all of AOL content properties. The deal was signed just this afternoon.