Judging by the title, you’d think I’d be writing on Rupert Murdoch and the WSJ journalists, right?
Wrong. Well, sort of.
Reading that Murdoch is reaching out to journalists (namely: health reporter Tara Parker-Pope, who is joining NYT to start a health blog there, securities reporter Kate Kelly - also considering NYT - and money and investment reporter Henny Sender, considering FT) who are leaving the recently acquired WSJ led me to think just how much things would have fared differently had someone at News Corp., anyone in fact, tried to get me to stay at Fox Interactive Media in December 2005. News Corp. bought the company that bought my company. After I helped integrate my company into FIM, the writing was on the wall.
There was an exit sign and it flashed for me.
When we were talking about my departure and the separation, someone mentioned (in hindsight I realized it was pure BS):
—– Original Message —–
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 7:10 PM
Subject: RE: ThanksYou beat me to it, Ash. Thank you for everything, including your professionalism. And, I’m sincere about the other stuff we talked about–let me know if you are working on stuff in the future that you’d like us to talk about.
My best you to you, Ash
Of course, things turned out much, much differently.
To this day, I wonder if I would have built Mojo Supreme and WatchMojo.com in particular within News Corp. Today WatchMojo.com is arguably the largest producer, publisher and syndicator of web video. Go to any web destination and see how ubiquitous our content has become. That, my friends, is just the beginning.
Anyway, would I have built this company as an intrapreneur instead of as an entrepreneur? I don’t think I would have been all that against doing some kind of joint venture with News Corp.’s FIM unit… but the honest answer today is probably not. I had no contact with anyone at News Corp., mind you, but at IGN, the company that bought my company, I’d never felt so discriminated against in such a short time as I did after IGN bought my old company… ironic mind you since the bulk of the discrimination came from someone you’d think would be the target of prejudice, but I digress.
Point is, like I say, things happen for a reason.
Instead of worrying about what could have been, I’m focusing more on what the future holds for our company.
But over the next few weeks, a couple of months tops, a few people over there will be asking themselves what could have been…
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