Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 3)

SM: What was your next move after Xilinx? JJ: I was eventually recruited to run a small fabless semiconductor company in the RFID space down in San Diego. My family did not follow me down there, so for a total of five years I was commuting.

Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 2)

SM: You have seen , I have been endlessly beating on Cadence and Synopsys on this issue. What has created this dynamic? Why is EDA so undervalued in general? JJ: When you sell software the cost of goods is almost zero. When I was working with semiconductors, we could always point back and say there

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Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 1)

There is a common phrase, ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you’. Business, high tech business in particular, has a series of interdependencies which have evolved into an ecosystem. This is particularly apparent in EDA, where Intel and AMD rely on the tools provided by EDA vendors to design a chip.

Building A Vertical Ad Network Powerhouse: Glam Media CEO Samir Arora (Part 7)

SM: What has amazed me about the last five years of the Internet is the inability to segment, which is Marketing 101. Why is it so difficult to get segmentation? It is the most fundamental and most powerful element of marketing! SA: Exactly! Steve Jobs talks about when he joined Pixar he saw that people

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Building A Vertical Ad Network Powerhouse: Glam Media CEO Samir Arora (Part 6)

SM: My position on this dichotomy between content destination and ad network is that in the future, all media companies will have to do both. SA: We believe we are redefining what a media company is. We epitomize what you just said. All media companies have to recognize that pre-web 2.0, you could own and

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Building A Vertical Ad Network Powerhouse: Glam Media CEO Samir Arora (Part 5)

SM: I always like it when a pioneering company takes a new approach with a solid business model already in place. SA: I will tell you something about Glam’s history we have not talked about before. Most startups come to a decision point in the first two or three years after launch, where the original

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Building A Vertical Ad Network Powerhouse: Glam Media CEO Samir Arora (Part 4)

SM: Glam was a pioneering startup. How did you assemble your management team? SA: Our seven key founders are all serial entrepreneurs and pioneers in Silicon Valley and Internet Technology.

Building A Vertical Ad Network Powerhouse: Glam Media CEO Samir Arora (Part 3)

SM: What is the story behind Glam? Where did the idea come from? SA: Glam was interesting from the first concept. It started as a jewel of an idea in 2001 and developed in 2002 at the bottom of the downturn.