Back in February 2011 I blogged on a most important subject, one very dear to my heart … and pocket. I blogged – Rod Humble In Villa Fan Shocker. There must be something about new CEO’s of Linden Lab and February football revelations because Ebbe Altberg has let the cat out of the bag about his football preference.
In a comment on Inara Pey’s blog Ebbe revealed :
Finally, I’m a big sports fan…motor sports, soccer (Arsenal!), golf, martial arts
Now this tells us a thing or two about the new CEO. The most obvious being that he does not have anywhere near as good taste as Rod Humble does when it comes to football teams! I mean Rod Humble supports the greatest team the world has ever seen and Ebbe Altberg supports The Arsenal.
The second thing it tells us is that the new CEO is reading Inara Pey’s blog, I’m at the front of the queue to poke Inara into asking him things, form an orderly queue behind me, far behind me.
Some people prefer to see CEO’s writing on the company blog, or the company forum, but Ebbe’s comment on Inara’s blog is related to a post she did looking at his background, so it is perfectly acceptable that Ebbe responds there, this is an informal personal matter, not a Linden Lab matter.
Ebbe reveals more in the comment than who his favourite football team is, I won’t quote the whole comment, you’ll have to go to Inara’s blog for that but he talks very briefly about his education and his work at Ingenio and BranchOut. He doesn’t really talk much about his time at Yahoo! but he does say:
I left Yahoo! because I did not believe in the CEO they had at that time. But I’m very proud of what was achieved while I was there (a lot of fixing org and technical plumbing).
I’d like to see a more in depth interview between Inara Pey and Ebbe Altberg, in this case Ebbe volunteered the interview without any prompting, this came as a surprise to Inara, and to me when Inara told me! Hopefully we’ll hear more from Ebbe in the coming months.