Tariq KRIM interviewed after CHAPPAZ quits Netvibes

Hi,

Tariq KRIM (CEO and founder of Netvibes) has given his first interview at neteco.com a French website about the net economy. and he speaks about the situation after former Co-CEO Pierre Chappaz has left the company with some other top managers.

First, Tariq presents the Top Managers of Netvibes:
Franck Mahon , Lead product manager
Francois Hodierne, Chief Architect
Freddy Mini, COO
Annabelle Malherbe, CFO

On the points of disagreement with Pierre Chappaz , Tariq Krim says:
" I did not share with (Pierre) him the urgency to compromise our product strategy by offering services as third partiy suppliers ."

On the Competition from Wikio (founded and managed by Pierre Chappaz) with their new RSS service, Tariq Krim says that Netvibes is already the Third Source for RSS reading (according to Feedburner : well here we see Fourth...)

On Revenues, Tariq Krim is explicit when he says that RSS will only give marginal revenues and that he believes more on Widgets monetisation. "We work at the moment with numerous partners on monetization and branding of the Widgets".

Tariq Krim clarifies also that there was no disagreement with Chappaz on the Exit strategy or Selling Out.

WHO is behind Netvibes_ part 6

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9) FRANCK MAHON , Lead Product Manager , French , born 1975.

Franck like to define himself as: "Web2.0, digital media and podcast evangelist".

His personal Blog in French is centered on the PODCAST


10) Francois HODIERNE, Chief Architect, French.

François is in charge also with the relations with the external developers of Netvibes with the http://dev.netvibes.com/forum.

His personal blog in French is not often updated.

11) Annabelle MALHERBE, CFO, French

Annabelle was previuosly European Finance Director of Yahoo Marketplace France.
Now she is also in charge with the relation with the VCs

All 3 have been mentionned by Tariq KRIM (CEO and founder of Netvibes) as the Team leader behind Netvibes now that Pierre Chappaz has left.