| June 6, 2006 at 12:17 AM PDT
Gil Penchina leaves eBay (see TechCrunch post) to become the first CEO of Bessemer funded Wikia, the new for-profit venture of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch speaks with Gil about his decision to leave, his game plan for Wikia and some of the hot startups he’s recently invested in.
Running Time: 27:40
Size: 12.7 MB
[...] I spoke with Gil for a few minutes this morning about his decision to leave, his plans for Wikia and some of his favorite new web startups. Listen at TalkCrunch. Wikia [...]
Is Quigo one of them? Can’t listen, at work.
What about root-level?
I noticed my name is spelled gill in the title of this podcast. It would be nice if someone could fix that.
Gil
fixed.
[...] Gill Penchina speak about his decision to leave eBay, his game plan for Wikia and some of the hot startups he’s recently invested in. Very Interesting Podcast.read more | digg story [...]
[...] I caught this nice little piece of conversation between Mike Arrington and Gil Penchina where they talk about Flock (towards the end of the latest edition of Talkcrunch: Episode 8 - Gil Penchina On Leaving eBay for Wikia, starts at 24:00 minutes) Gil: In terms of a smaller company that I’m pretty passionate about I have to say Flock ranks up there as probably my favorite early-stage company. Bart, who is the CEO, was at Mozilla and was, you know, looking around going “Boy, here’s a foundation that’s doing something really amazing but all these companies keep coming and trying to partner with us and they can’t because we’re a foundation. So, I’m gonna go off and build a commercial open-source browser and be more partner-centric,” and Flock has built an incredible product and they’re actually, you know, beta testing, you know, the next version right now. So, you know, Flock has built a great browser they have created quite a following they’re very partner-centric and have been partnering with a number of people. And, you know, my map is that the browser business needs, to be successful in that business you need a 4-5 percent share. And that on a 5 percent share of the browser business Flock can go public. So yeah, I’m pretty bullish on a company that has to lose to be able to go public. [...]
[...] Michael Arrington a podcasté Gil sur sa décision de quitter Ebay, sur sa vision de Wikia et ses nouvelles startups favorites. [...]
Hi Gil, we’ll miss you in Paris.
[...] Gil Penchina氏（元 eBay の Vice President と International の General Manager）は、今では新興スタートアップ Wikia の CEO となった。Wikia は営利目的でWikipedia の姉妹サイトにあたる。Wikipedia が立証されている事実に取り組んでいる一方、Wikia は人々の意見で織り成すサイトとなる－トラベルガイド、政治上の意見など、なんでもありだ。Wikia は2006年3月に4百万のベンチャーラウンドを発表。今朝 Gil とは、 eBay を去ることへの彼の決意や Wikia での彼が考えるプラン、そして彼のお気に入りの新興スタートアップについて２－３分話していた。もし興味があるなら、TalkCrunchのポッドキャストを聞いてみて。 [...]
Hi, Gil. It was interesting to hear you speaking, and it’s great you to have you in Wikia!
[...] Wikia Personals has yet to launch, but aims to create a free global personals page. Discussion so far is geared towards a site that allows users to search through personal profiles based on fields such as language, sex, religion, etc. Stay tuned for some more developments from this community created site. Our previous Wikia posts are here, and our podcast interview with CEO Gil Penchina is here. [...]
[...] Wikia Personalsは世界的 な無料のパーソナルページを作り上げるのが目的だが、まだサービスは開始されていない。現在のところ、言語、性別、宗教などの個人プロファイルをキーとし て検索できるサービスという方向で議論が進んでいる。コミュニティーをベースにしたこのサイトについて進展があれば報告するので乞うご期待。Wikiaに ついての前回の記事はここに（日本語はここ）。CEO Gil Penchinaとのポッドキャスト対談はここに。 [...]