Like Redmond, Hollywood is also very clear about the game it plays. The game is called This is a Poker Table with Six Seats, Five of Which Belong to the House and the Other One is Always Open — to Coca Cola, Vivendi, Seagram, Matsushita and Any Rich Dude Who Wants to Date Actresses.
Yahoo took the Sixth Seat when it hired Hollywood house player Terry Semel as its CEO in 2001. That didn’t work out so well for anyone but Semel and whoever was sitting in the other house seats.
Seduced and betrayed by heartless Hollywood, Yahoo today is one confused coquette. Its behavior resembles that of some fourth-generation member of the Getty family who snaps out of an alcohol stupor one day and wonders how so many meerkats and macaws got into the mansion.
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I was playing around with FriendFeed this afternoon and happened on some tweets by a well-known, publicly obvious tech entrepreneur in Santa Monica (a transplant from Silicon Valley).
He was at an “exclusive” club yammering on about “cool film directors” and “girls dancing on the table”…and it reminded me of the above quote.
Those poor, poor geeks. If the business world was a city, Hollywood would be its strip club. [Insert metaphor about teasing and losing money here].
