Boxee CEO: The Trouble with Hulu
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/19/Paley_Center_IC2009_-_Hunt_for_the_Next_Big_Thing
Boxee CEO Avner Ronen discusses his company’s much-publicized disagreement with web video site Hulu. “We hope to bring Hulu back as a partner one of these days,” he explains, arguing “we still need to resolve that concern that media companies have with regard to disrupting their channels.”
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The Paley Center for Media’s International Council 2009 NYC brought together the industry’s top innovators from across the globe for the most talked about media event of 2009.
This session highlights a handful of up-and-coming digital media companies vying to become the Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace of 2010.
The conversation features Avner Ronen (CEO, Boxee), Tony Haile (General Manager, Chartbeat), Doug Knopper (Co-founder and Co-CEO, FreeWheel), Justin Shaffer (Founder and CEO, Hot Potato), Mike Dougherty (CEO and Co-founder, Jelli), Peter Rojas (Co-Founder, gdgt.com), and Andrew Lacy (Co-founder and COO, Tapulous). Quincy Smith (CEO, CBS Interactive) moderates.
Avner Ronen is CEO of Boxee. Before starting Boxee, Mr. Ronen was the Head of Corporate Development and M&A for Comverse, Inc. a leading provider of software and service to Telecom service providers. Mr. Ronen was responsible for acquisitions valued at $450M, which were key to the company’s evolution from a Voicemail company to a Billing and VAS provider.
Mr. Ronen joined Comverse in 2002 when they acquired Odigo, a company he co-founded in 1998. Odigo was one of the early Instant Messaging services on the web serving over 8M users worldwide.
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February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
What is Boxee? I’ve …
What is Boxee? I’ve never heard of it.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
@JasonMelancon,
No …
@JasonMelancon,
No, I don’t thumb down someone I disagree with. I only thumb (up or down), based on the value of their input to the discussion; even (read especially) if they disagree with me.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
Hulu, YouTube, …
Hulu, YouTube, Facebook, etc…. they dominate the internet. They own it, like it or not. Do I mean they literally have the rights to it? No. But the internet is THEIR domain. The only reason we’re having this discussion is because YouTube (and therefore Google) allows and provides for it.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
WRONG QUEEN!!!
WRONG QUEEN!!!
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
I can’t wait … we …
I can’t wait … we will be teams of individuals not mobs anymore.
Here is to the future cheers
Aberran
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
i cant watch hulu …
i cant watch hulu because im not in the usa. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
Mass media is in …
Mass media is in its death throws anyways, it won’t be a decade before bloggers and user created “news” will out-distribute mass media.
The people will reclaim the market man!
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
Google and NBC / …
Google and NBC / ABC don’t own the internet.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
This isn’t what …
This isn’t what they’re thinking, so much as a public relations effort to get us to accept their rules. I’m not interested in it. Fora TV was showing different things when I subbed. If it were about what they’re *doing* to the internet, as described by a careful observer, that would be fine.
By the way, did you thumb me down?
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
I’m sorry, are they …
I’m sorry, are they wrong? Do Hulu (owned by NBC/ABC) and YouTube (owned by Google) NOT currently own the internet? Don’t you want to know what the people who are in charge of these outrageously successful companies are THINKING?
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
You know, Fora TV, …
You know, Fora TV, I’m not especially interested in all these industry bigwigs pontificating on how they’re going to rule the internet. If this is all you have these days, just change your name to NetCEOsRus, so we can look for something else instead.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
Competition is only …
Competition is only good for the consumers. It makes the media better and lowers cost. Most people that supply media would rather not change and just leach those thirsty for it dry. After all its all about the money in capitolism.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
lol television. Who …
lol television. Who the watches that ?
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
frak cable. they …
frak cable. they want to turn internet 2 into pay cable.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:37 am
good for the media …
good for the media companies = the end of the internet