Satish Dharmaraj

Exclusive: Hadoop Companies Multiply as MapR Lands $20M in Funding

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 30, 2011 at 4:15 am PT

When there are big data jobs to be done, chances are a version of the open source data analysis platform Hadoop is involved. MapR is the latest company to try to make a profit helping other companies get the most out of it.

Yahoo Adds Zimbra to the Garage Sale as It Tries to Shed What Isn't "You!"

Kara Swisher in News on September 21, 2009 at 4:16 am PT

According to numerous sources, Yahoo has been shopping around Zimbra, the open-source email company it bought in late 2007 for $350 million. Zimbra is only one of the many assets of Yahoo that are now on the block, including its personals business, its HotJobs online classified unit and more to come. The effort to unload Zimbra is yet another sign that the company is trying to slim down its diverse portfolio, even as it strives to redefine itself this week with a new, pricey marketing campaign that seeks to position Yahoo primarily as a consumer company.

Entrepreneur-Turned-VC Satish Dharmaraj Speaks About His Very First VC Investment!

Kara Swisher in News on April 27, 2009 at 6:00 am PT

Little known factoid: Every time a penny drops onto a start-up, a venture capitalist gets his wings. Well, OK, not so much, but it’s one way to look at it. An example of that, though, is this video interview I did with serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Satish Dharmaraj, who has been on the ground floor of a number of tech start-ups, sold one (Zimbra to Yahoo for $350 million in late 2007) and has now made his first investment as a new VC.

Yahoo Hires Adobe Vet Lamkin to Run Communications and Communities Unit as Dietzen Moves to Strategy Post

Kara Swisher in News on April 24, 2009 at 11:43 pm PT

More musical chairs at Yahoo, which BoomTown predicted recently, as top execs at the company move in and out of jobs, and new ones from the outside move in. Perhaps the most important change to occur is the replacement this week of SVP Scott Dietzen–who had been in charge of all communications and communities products at Yahoo–by former Adobe Systems exec Bryan Lamkin, several sources said. And there’s even more…

Stop Me if You've Heard This One: Yahoo Management and Staff Set on Shuffle Again

Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2009 at 1:31 am PT

Yes, more layoffs are indeed coming to Yahoo, sources confirmed to BoomTown, but perhaps even more than have been reported. But that’s not all, as even more top-level managers are either leaving or being moved around the ever-changing organizational structure at Yahoo. That includes a longtime top sales operations exec, Dan Foehner, who is about to start at Facebook next week, as well as others contemplating leaving, on their way out or being reshuffled. In other words, business as usual at the tumultuous company, whose nickname should be “Reorg.”

Bartz of 100 Days: Tough Talk to Microsoft Talks

Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2009 at 8:30 am PT

Here’s an interesting irony–Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz will have her 99th day in office on the very one that the Internet giant will announce its first-quarter earnings: April 21, 2009 at 2 p.m. PST. Technically, it will mean that she has been running Yahoo for 100 days, a time when most administrations get their first evaluation. Thus, if it’s good enough for President Obama, it’s good enough for Bartz! While most expect the results for the quarter to be weak, due to the econalypse, the overall verdict from BoomTown’s needling of Yahoos to give me info on their new leader recently: Love, love, love Bartz’s innate decisiveness, and wanting more of the same.

Zimbra Founder and Ex-Yahoo Exec Dharmaraj to Redpoint Ventures

Kara Swisher in News on March 23, 2009 at 12:54 pm PT

Another former Yahoo exec has landed at a Silicon Valley venture firm. This time, well-regarded serial entrepreneur Satish Dharmaraj will become a partner at Redpoint Ventures, according to sources. The move of Dharmaraj is interesting, given that he is not starting a new company or taking a post as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the venture capital firm, which many operating execs do after leaving a company. Sources close to the situation said Dharmaraj would focus on business software, the enterprise arena and infrastructure at Redpoint.

Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash to Depart the Company

Kara Swisher in News on February 2, 2009 at 2:44 pm PT

Jill Nash, Yahoo’s chief communications officer, has told CEO Carol Bartz and other Yahoo staff this afternoon that she is leaving the company. Nash, sources said, told staff that she does not have any plans to move to another company immediately, so the reasons for her departure are unclear. BoomTown would have to guess that Nash is simply completely spent from her past two years at Yahoo, which have been very fraught from a public relations perspective, to say the least.

Carol Bartz's First-Week-at-Yahoo Memo to the Troops

Kara Swisher in News on January 25, 2009 at 1:53 am PT

With Yahoo earnings expected to be dismal when the company reports fourth-quarter earnings this Tuesday afternoon, new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is going to have to hang tough. And she certainly seems capable of that. At her first all-hands meeting, Bartz said, according to one report others have since confirmed to BoomTown, that she would “drop-kick to f***ing Mars” employees who leak to the press. That threat sent little shivers up BoomTown’s spine too, which is why it must have taken so long for her first-week missive to Yahoo staff worldwide to get to my inbox. Well played, Ms. Bartz, well played. But turnabout is also fair play…

YAHOO=Yet Another Hiring Over and Out (Hadley Heads Back to Microsoft)

Kara Swisher in News on January 22, 2009 at 3:47 am PT

One of Yahoo’s top marketing execs, Eric Hadley, who came to the company with a lot of acclaim in November, is set to leave for a new job in Microsoft’s MSN online service, several sources said. Hadley had previously worked at Microsoft, although he had come to Yahoo from the CMO job at Heavy.com. At Yahoo, he was hired as its VP of U.S. field marketing. It’s yet another sign of renewed executive unrest at Yahoo. Yesterday, BoomTown reported that Zimbra founder Satish Dharmaraj was leaving Yahoo, which was later confirmed by the company.