• Project Playlist Hires Owen Van Natta As CEO. They Just Won't Admit It.

    Michael Arrington

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    Thursday, October 30th, 2008

    This is now well past speculation. Owen Van Natta, Facebook’s former Chief Revenue Officer and Amazon’s former Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development, is the new CEO of Project Playlist.

    Or at least that’s what he’s been telling people, we’ve heard from multiple sources.

    The company hasn’t returned our emails, even to say “no comment.” Same with Van Natta. We sent TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid by their offices today to get the brush off in person, and the company duly complied. “Our CEO isn’t available to talk to you,” an unidentified spokesperson said. In response to the question “Who is your CEO?” she answered “I can’t tell you that information.”

    On the upside, the site’s back up.

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