Former MSN exec joins Mozilla China
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| Li Gong, the former top executive for MSN in China, has joined
| Mozilla's Chinese subsidiary, Mozilla Online, as its chairman and CEO.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9723757-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
Mozilla's head of security came from Microsoft as well. They moved on. The
exodus of talent is partly Google's fault, but some Microsoft executives
start open source companies.
Related:
Talent Not Important At NineMSN
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| In the last 6 months the following have left the organisation:
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| * CEO
| * CTO
| * CFO
| * Marketing Director.
| * National Sales Manager
| * Executive Producer (News & Sport)
| * Executive Producer (Sport)
| * Head of Search
| * Producer (Sport)
| * Senior Copy Editor (7+ years @ ninemsn)
| * Multimedia Producer (5+ years)
| * The entire sports team (20 years experience) left to
| competitors in < 2 months
| * Producer of Hotmail, Messenger and Spaces
|
| [...]
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| I'm all for cleaning house every once in a while, but this list is
| astonishing.
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| [...]
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| Better get a new ship is all I can say. This spells big trouble for
| Microsoft because it gets to a point where no matter how deep your pockets,
| if you can't recruit and retain talent, then the game is certainly up.
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http://blog.eightblack.com/2006/talent-not-important-at-ninemsn/
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