The
Los Angeles Times has an interesting article about the successes and failures of Yahoo!'s attempt to merge the brash ethos of Hollywood with its relaxed but hard-working Silicon Valley
sensibility. Largely concentrated in its Santa Monica satellite office, Yahoo!'s "convergence" team is charged with bringing the kind of content that made empires out of Viacom and the Walt Disney
Company to the massive online media and technology company. The convergence of such inherently different corporate cultures hasn't always been smooth, as the article points out. The article is less
about what the new breed of Hollywood Internet execs actually bring to the table than it is about infantile complaints over things like parking spots, office space and other perks former Hollywood
executives feel entitled to.
Read the whole story at L.A. Times »
