Los Angeles
- Sling Media, the developer of media "place-shifting" technology
acquired a year ago by EchoStar for a reported $380 million, on Monday saw the
departure of its two co-founders and a good portion of its top management,
PaidContent reports. Company co-founders and brothers Blake and Jason Krikorian
– Sling’s CEO and SVP of business development, respectively — along with president
Jason Hirschhorn; chief creative officer Ben White; and VP of sales Greg Wilkes
have all resigned from Sling.
Hirschhorn told PaidContent that the executives agreed to stay on for a year following the EchoStar acquisition and take the company through another Consumer Electronics Show, but, "Now it’s time for the entrepreneurs to move on."
Last week, the company introduced a new Slingbox set-top with an integrated digital video recorder, as well as a mobile iPhone application.
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