Brad garlinghouse, a wellknown technology executive who previously worked at aol and yahoo, has landed at filesharing startup yousendit as its ceo. Going beyond simply sending, yousendit bulks up mobile app. Oct 18, 2017 one would think he would be on the agenda today. Brad garlinghouse gives a hint about one of the worlds largest banks using xrp. Sep 11, 2017 brad garlinghouse is the ceo of ripple owner of xrp, the fourthmostvaluable cryptocurrency. Where yahoos amazing talent ended up business insider. After a year in the job, ceo brad garlinghouse makes a bold move and changes the cloud service providers name from yousendit to hightail. We have more than 40 million registered users and several thousand very large corporate accounts ranging from the largest of the large, with our biggest deployment being 37,000 seats. Im thrilled to announce that yousendit has changed its name to hightail. Users of the hightail service upload a file to hightails servers, and recipients are provided with a link where the file can be downloaded. Brad garlinghouse, yousendit idt medical strives to improve patient care with innovative solutions through close collaboration between clinicians and engineers. Aols product guy, brad garlinghouse, heads for the exit.
Bradley kent brad garlinghouse born february 6, 1971, in topeka, kansas is ceo of financial technology company ripple. He was formerly the ceo and chairman of hightail formerly yousendit, the file sharing site. Ceo at hightail formerly yousendit, president of consumer applications at aol. The developed world is on the brink of a financial, economic, social and political crisis duration. Brad garlinghouse is the ceo of ripple owner of xrp, the fourthmostvaluable cryptocurrency. Ripple ceo brad garlinghouse on bitcoin and xrp cnbc. And yes, we are saying that using other service providers can be unprofessional.
Former aol executive brad garlinghouse will join cloud storage and filesharing company yousendit as the new ceo, the company. Nov 17, 2011 aol doesnt have a chief product officer, but if it did, that person would be brad garlinghouse, the president of applications and commerce who heads up aols silicon valley office. In may, the company found a new ceo in brad garlinghouse, the former. Jan 23, 20 the app is available for iphone and windows 8 devices. Filesharing site yousendit today shed its paperairplane logo and stifling title, and is. Brad garlinghouse is a conceited boob, committing one of the most heinous business crimes changing the name of a wellknown and trusted brand and for basically no good reason. In 2012, brad garlinghouse was appointed ceo while the remaining cofounder ranjith kumaran became a member of the board. It was great hosting our neighbor as he told us about why companies should hate peanut butter and entertained us with a few welltimed jokes. Hightail is a secure filesharing and collaboration. Brad garlinghouse resigned as the ceo of the cloud file sharing company hightail over sharp differences of. Hightail, formerly yousendit, is a cloud service that lets users send, receive, digitally sign and. Garlinghouse argued publicly for the first time about the coinbase addition during an interview with fortune magazine only yesterday, thursday, june 21st.
Here is why brad garlinghouse thinks coinbase should list. Jul 10, 20 this is the new name brad garlinghouse chose to compete with box and dropbox. Prior to ripple, he headed the filesharing site hightail formerly yousendit. Known mostly for sending and receiving documents, yousendit actually offers a. Dec 11, 2017 this article about ripple is quite informative. Dec 02, 2014 a sender sent a link to the recipient who was then able to download the file. He was formerly the ceo and chairman of hightail formerly yousendit, the. Jul 11, 20 yousendit has accumulated some 43 million users since it was founded back in 2004, with a straightforward name and a straightforward mission of helping people store and send data on the web.
Brad garlinghouse gives a hint about one of the worlds. Brad garlinghouse ceo of ripplie ripple and credit agricole payment services duration. Weve been planning, preparing, designing and developing our new brand for many months and its exciting to finally reveal it to the world. While it was great hearing the story behind the memo, one thing that. Inside brad garlinghouses reimagination of cloudstorage. Innovative design solutions benefit the patient through improved surgical outcome and reduce the cost for healthcare providers and medical device manufacturers. Ripple ceo brad garlinghouse says the world has barely. You might remember brad from his days at yahoo, where he wrote the now famous peanut butter manifesto. From yahoos no working at home memo to the peanut butter manifesto, here are some of the best. Yousendit, the file transfer and business content collaboration service, has been trucking along of late, in spite of competition from plucky upstarts like box. New ceo brad garlinghouse renamed the company hightail in june 20, to be more attractive to business customers and to better connote speediness.
Oct 07, 2018 brad is the ceo of ripple and a member of the board of directors. In its early years, amir pursued advertising revenues, jimmy vienneau managed business development, francis wu created the graphic design including the logo, while kumaran focused on the user experience and khalid did technical work. Aol doesnt have a chief product officer, but if it did, that person would be brad garlinghouse, the president of applications and commerce who heads up aols silicon valley office. Ripple ceo brad garlinghouse says the world has barely begun.
This is the new name brad garlinghouse chose to compete. Bradley kent brad garlinghouse is ceo of financial technology company ripple. Filesharing company yousendit has grown out of its name. Jun, 2012 yousendit, the file transfer and business content collaboration service, has been trucking along of late, in spite of competition from plucky upstarts like box. Known mostly for sending and receiving documents, yousendit actually offers a lot more than that. Feb 07, 2018 ripple ceo brad garlinghouse tony avelarbloomberg this harvard m. This is the new name brad garlinghouse chose to compete with box and dropbox. Yousendit rebrands as hightail, adds unlimited storage. Brad garlinghouses menlo park house business insider. Ripple ceo brad garlinghouse tony avelarbloomberg this harvard m. Yousendit has changed its name to hightail, and is. Apr 24, 2014 it was able to secure funding from several investors. Focused on price of xrp over three years, not daytoday xrp trading and price speculation. The visionary ceo of the ripple company, brad garlinghouse, has recently put forth his idea that the coinbase exchange should list ripple xrp.
How is hightail different from the other file sharing services. With the last pivot in 2016, the ceo brad garlinghouse was gone and there were layoffs all over. Brad garlinghouse is ceo of the financial technology company ripple, which builds financial products for the xrp cryptocurrency. Yousendit ceo brad garlinghouse just gave every employee an ipad mini. To be sure, yousendits cloudbased competitors also have a variety of mobile apps that complement their desktop services. Our hq in campbell, ca is just down the street from the filesharing services office. View brad ehlys profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. In 2007, the service added features and plugins, and continued to receive investment funding for several rounds.
I dont expect any great earth shattering announcement but it i would hope to hear from him directly. Brad garlinghouse, of yousendit, didnt have to travel very far to get on his soapbox. Born in 1971, garlinghouse has a ba in economics from the university of kansas and an mba from harvard business school. After two years serving as ceo of cloud storage company hightail formerly yousendit, brad garlinghouse is out.
Of course, it all depends on what exactly youre sharing and with whom. We had a lot of fun when our neighbor brad garlinghouse, ceo of yousendit, dropped by and got on his soapbox earlier this month. Theyve seen this company try and find an edge, and unfortunately havent seen that goal come to fruition. May 15, 2012 brad garlinghouse, a wellknown technology executive who previously worked at aol and yahoo, has landed at filesharing startup yousendit as its ceo. Yousendit has accumulated some 43 million users since it was founded back in 2004, with a straightforward name and a straightforward mission of helping people store and send data on the web. Yousendit lands new ceo with brad garlinghouse venturebeat. Hightail moves past file sharing with spaces, a collaborative. Prior to hightail, he was president of consumer applications at aol for two years, after his role as senior vice president at yahoo. Yousendit ceo brad garlinghouse flickrdfarber the outspoken ceo of yousendit, brad garlinghouse, just put his menlo park house on the market. Known for having sent the famous jerry mcguireesque peanut butter manifesto at yahoo, the executive becomes ceo of yousendit after years at aol. Most people think a future discounted cash flow is the best way to value a company. Exaol honcho brad garlinghouse to run yousendit cnet. What is the average ripples xrp owned by individual investors. We spoke with ceo brad garlinghouses about his plans for yousendit.
Yousendit ceo brad garlinghouse just gave all his employees an. Hightail is a secure filesharing and collaboration platform focused on professionals. Brad garlinghouse is the chief executive officer of hightail, formerly yousendit, inc. Long terms employees are battle tested and have some scars from past pivots. Brad garlinghouse says its dangerous for startups to get carried away by the hype thats so audible in californias hightech echo chamber. Yousendit rebrands as hightail, adds unlimited storage plan. Brad garlinghouse, the former yahoo executive tapped two years ago to transform the company formerly known as yousendit into the filesharing company hightail, has left the company. He was formerly the ceo and chairman of hightail formerly yousendit, the filesharing site. Josh hannah wrote a post about that bubble and whats going on with cryptos today. Brad believes that a truly successful company begins with its employees and the culture they build. This is the new name brad garlinghouse chose to compete with.
Filesharing site yousendit today shed its paperairplane logo and stifling title, and is now stepping out with a new name and purpose. Jul 10, 20 yousendit rebrands as hightail, adds unlimited storage plan. Brad garlinghouse no longer ceo of hightail business insider. Bitcoin rival ripple is suddenly sitting on billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency blockchain startup ripple built a digital payments network for realtime fina. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover brads connections. Dec 14, 2017 ask me anything with brad garlinghouse duration.
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