2 posts and columns on Robin Wauters

YouTube's Chad Hurley Makes It Official: He's Moving From CEO to "Advisor"

in Media on October 28, 2010 at 5:57 pm PT

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley plans to step down from his position and take on an advisory role, he announced at an industry event today. It’s a formal acknowledgment of a practical reality, since Hurley hasn’t been running YouTube for some time. It’s still worth noting, though: Now all three of the the giant video site’s co-founders have moved on.

TechCrunch's Yertle the Turtle Tantrum Over News Embargoes

in News on December 18, 2008 at 11:48 am PT

Yesterday, the one-man-band of a tech blogger, Michael Arrington, let loose with yet another outrageously indignant diatribe–this time that he and his TechCrunch site would forthwith break all news embargoes. Not content with the traffic generated last week by his obviously faked Wrestlemania bout with French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur about the lazy-lunching Europeans, he moved on to a riff on PR people versus journalists. (What next for the Geraldo Rivera of investigative tech blogging? A withering prosecution of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang in the HOV lane on Highway 101 in Sunnyvale without a hybrid? Quelle scandale!)