Ticketmaster, Revolution Health, then Disney's games business
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Joined CitySearch in 1996, which merged into Ticketmaster; chief executive of Ticketmaster from around 1999 to 2005, and president of IAC's Information and Services group — IAC being Barry Diller's company — where he oversaw Match.com, Evite, CitySearch and others.
Named chief executive of Revolution Health Group in September 2005, under Steve Case as chairman. Later chief operating officer and president of global publishing at Electronic Arts, then chief executive of the social games company Playdom, which Disney acquired in 2010 for $563m.
From October 2010 he was co-president of Disney Interactive Media Group, running Disney's games businesses — Playdom, Club Penguin, World of Cars, and the console and mobile titles. He left in 2013.
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Through Bill Hambrecht's introduction to Steve Case. And separately through Thomas Stockham — a Stanford GSB friend of Jonathan Hare's, and Scott Sandell's mentor — who had worked for Pleasants and was looped in.
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Introduced by Bill Hambrecht, after his brother's death
Open →president and chief executiveConsumer-controlled health, 2005 — and the wall it hit
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