Second Life, exits, linden lab, philip rosedale, reuters

Linden Lab CEO stepping down

Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale is stepping down as CEO. The Benchmark Capital-backed company is looking for a new chief with more operational and management experience. "This is my life's work. I'm not going anywhere, and I'm still full-time on this, probably for the rest of my life," says Rosedale, shown here as his Second Life alter ego. The story was broken by the Reuters Second Life news center within Second Life. This is likely the only news ever broken by the bureau that you'll care about.

10:00 AM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Jordan Golson
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matto at 10:07 AM on 03/14/08
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It's going to be tough recruiting a replacement that looks good in a fursuit.
Dweezil at 10:20 AM on 03/14/08
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Would anyone like to buy hats for their profile image here on Valleywag? I will take your profile image, open MSPaint and draw a hat of your choice for $4.99 per image. Holiday hats are $3.99. Hats with words are $5.99.
Ted Dziuba at 10:28 AM on 03/14/08
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Didn't Valleywag have an article a while ago about how not to get fired by your VCs?
deathbychichi at 10:58 AM on 03/14/08
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The VCs always fire you. Few exceptions. That's what they call leadership, their much-touted extra special double-secret sauce that comes along with their money.
scalawag at 11:23 AM on 03/14/08
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Taking a VC is an act of submission. This is only attractive to indecisive, co-dependent individuals who do not know how to turn a profit.

Or those who delude themselves that they do the screwing.
yawnster at 11:46 AM on 03/14/08
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i still dont understand what is so fun about second life..
matto at 12:20 PM on 03/14/08
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@yawnster: who wouldn't love to shop for IBM Enterprise Professional Services in an immersive, 3d, virtual fursuit environment?
Dweezil at 01:14 PM on 03/14/08
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@matto: Fursecution! Fursecuter! Furries are no different than anyone else, they are totally normal, you are like a Nazi, and they are Jews... but instead of Jews they like to draw pictures of animals fucking people and people fucking animals and animals fucking animals and slash fictions! It's practically the same thing though, you Nazi bastard.
matto at 04:42 PM on 03/14/08
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Most of the Jews I know would pick the Holocaust over being compared to furries
scalawag at 06:45 PM on 03/14/08
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@matto: Speak for yourself you fucking asshole
Dweezil at 10:38 AM on 03/15/08
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@scalawag: No, he's right. My great grandmother hid in a hay bale (seriously) while Nazis used pitchforks in a field of hay to try and find people who were hiding. They just missed her, and after working for a terrible family who just happened to be not terrible enough to tell the Nazis she was a Jew she escaped to France. Which was then immediately invaded, ironically, and she immigrated to the United States.

Pretty sure if she was still alive, and I presented her with this proposition--namely, to be a furry or to be found and killed by Nazis--she'd go with the Nazis.
Davion at 01:35 PM on 03/15/08
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Attention Benchmark Capital: former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta is looking for a CEO position! Perfect fit!