Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: Twitters

Scoble happy – Bill looking glum


Never realized that Bill Gates would be so crestfallen on the news of Scoble leaving.

So Robert could become a millionaire! According to this story Podtech was valued at $10m a few months ago and coupled with this story “Furrier said. Part of the investment is giving Scoble a significant equity stake of the PodTech.net, which received a $5.5 million round of
funding in March. Furrier and employees still own more than 50 percent of the startup, “
To me a significant stake has to be a few percent so when Bill gets his cheque book out in a few months Robert could walk out with a few million – maybe enough to buy a house. No wonder Bill is looking so unhappy.

Great news that they are setting on Maryam as well. Well done to Robert & Maryam couldnt happen to a better duo.

Thanks to Halley for the BBC link

Ellee Scribble’s….

Ellee has taken on board Orya’s new company Scribble and published a press release here. Orya is a Ruby on Rails guy who I convinced to come to the Our Social World conference last year.

It will be interesting to see how the concept of internet ordered handwritten greeting cards takes off. I’m sure Ellee will be able to get the press release into some prime spots.

Scoble to Podtech & Podtech to Microsoft?

Great news about Robert Scoble leaving Microsoft to join a start up podcasting outfit Podtech, yep the news crashed their servers! Podtech recently received Series A $5.5million in financing

Its funny, I was only talking to Doc Searls at Reboot saying that I was sure that Robert was about to pack his bags just from the tone of his recent postings.

My bet is that Microsoft will buy Podtech up and get Scoble back into Microsoft. This time at a much higher level in the organisation. Lets hope he’s savvy enough to have stiched up a good stock deal with Podtech. Remember you heard it here first 🙂