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CEO Talk: Joe Kraus

admin — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:12:40 +0000

Google recently bought JotSpot, a wiki company offering hosted applications for SMBs. The interview comes courtesy of Scoble.

The most important point he made was that the most important “revolutions in technology were do-it-yourself revolutions, i.e. when you give a non-technical person has the same ability that only a technical person has had historically…”

One funny bit was that Joe said he finds Google a lot more threatening than Microsoft. I wonder if the execs at Google have seen it before signing the check.

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GoDaddy vlog

admin — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:14:40 +0000

I’m a big fan of Bob Parsons. Last time, I posted about GoDaddy pulling its IPO filing.

GoDaddy recently started offering video blogging for only a couple of bucks. They’ve always been about getting a great deal and this one is no different. A domain for 8 bucks and video hosting for 5 more (monthly).

Bob has been doing podcasts (and radio shows) before but once video is in, he immediately started vlogging. In this one, he welcomes Danica Patrick, an Indy car racer, as the new GoDaddy girl.

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GoDaddy pulls IPO filing

admin — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:24:07 +0000

I love outspoken CEOs and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy (domain names, duh!) is one of my favorites.

He speaks out on a subject that’s close to my heart – the notion that every successful company MUST do an IPO. Now, he’s not saying GoDaddy will never go for an IPO (they got their filing approved by the SEC). He does say if the market conditions aren’t right, he’s in no hurry to take the company public.

With 14 million in cash this quarter alone, he could bide his time. I hope GoDaddy gets the recognition it deserves. I’ve been their customer for the last 5 years and I’m hosting over 50 domains with them. Their bringing down of the price of domains allowed me to buy 10 times more domains that I could buy in 1997.

Another thing I was wondering about GoDaddy is whether all their programmers and service personnel are in US. It’s probably a moot point but I’ll be surprised if they are not outsourcing at least part of their operations. Bob’s previously company allegedly employed over a thousand people, it’s interesting to see if things have changed since then.

Tags: CEO, domains, godaddy, internet, IPO

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