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Walnut, T. H.; Warwick, J. W.; Welch, A. W.; Wicks, J. D.; Winebaum, B. V.; Works, C. C.; Wright...
That would not include the company's top online executive, Jake Winebaum, head of Disney's Buena Vista Internet Group, who last week became the latest and greatest of Mouse managers to leave to pursue his own Net business, free of Disney's corporate control...
...Winebaum helped make Disney, though a late comer to the Internet game, a formidable player. Last year Disney bought a 43% stake in InfoSeek, a search engine that was slipping behind competitors and needed a new brand and some marketing might. Disney needed to beef up its online presence with a portal. In January the two launched the Go Network, now the fourth most popular online destination go.com) with more than 19 million visitors a month. Not bad, but far from the best. At No. 1, yahoo.com attracts close to 31 million, according to Net-traffic tracker Media Metrix. Disney...
...only one jealous of those Internet billionaires. High-paid, lavishly pampered executives are watching small start-ups cash in -- and deciding themselves to bail out. The latest defectors to the Net side include Jake Winebaum, architect of Disney's Internet plans, and Lou Dobbs, money anchor for this site's corporate sibling, CNN. Who's going to run the old companies? It's yet another example of the Net creating chaos for business as usual...
...employees. The Yahoo-style site will be up and running by 1998, and promises to be the most extensive and kid-safe engine of all. "If families feel (the Internet) is not a family place, there's no way it's going to become as popular as television," Jake Winebaum, president of Disney Online, told the Washington Post...