I’ve rarely run into a company as adaptable, even Protean, as Blinkx.
I’ve been following it since it spun off from Autonomy in 2004 with the
mission of finding applications for Autonomy’s search and indexing
technology. The first area that founder and CEO Suranga Chandratillake
explored was desktop search for Macs and PCs, but within a year the
company pivoted into video search. Since then it’s reinvented its
approach to the video market every couple of years...
from Xconomy
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The usual smug, self-regarding, self-satisfied fuckwittery form our late, unlamented CEO. The man's self-delusion and arrogance is breath-taking: to read that interview you'd think Blinkx was already another Google, instead of a company which has totally lost the confidence of investors and the markets and seems to lurch from one crisis to another (and, incidentally, whose share price is only slightly above the IPO price 5 years after float).
Chandratillake mentions in that interview that he thought about leaving Blinkx. Christ, I wish he had. Not that he should have been given the choice: his sorry ass should have been fired after 5 years of failure to deliver products and shareholder value...
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