Zach Klein joins Boxee
We are happy to announce that Zach Klein has joined Boxee. Zach was part of the founding team that built College Humor, Busted Tees and Vimeo (at Connected Ventures/IAC). Building a great product is one of those things that combines art, science and instinct. It is also very difficult to translate a vision into a product that people use and love. Zach has the magic touch and we are very excited to have him on the team.
We raised our latest round to enable us to take advantage of the momentum we see in the market, but growing the team (we are now 19 people at Boxee) is always risky for a startup. It could mean becoming slower, focusing too much internally, beginning of politics, culture clashes, etc (I hope we will manage this phase well). In this context we feel very fortunate that we were able to bring Zach on board. Beside being a great talent he also shares many passions with the team: tinkering with stuff, coffee, traveling the world, beautiful bikes, being a fan of losing sports franchises and more..
The development of the Boxee Beta is wrapping up and we need to start thinking of the future beyond the Beta. Zach could not have joined at a better time.
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congrats to both boxee and zach, this is an awesome development.
Congratulations guys! As you get bigger don’t loose touch with the community. Not that you are now. But to keep boxee great is to keep it usable to the REAL average person. Not what tivo or hollywood thinks we want.
Keep up the absolutely amazing work!
yes. we will try and walk that fine line between implementing features based on user feedback and where we think we could innovate
Boxee couldn’t have found anyone better. Zach is simply world-class. Look out TiVo!
congrats!
Zach’s Flash player design has been copied far and wide. Get ready for more iconic design with Boxee!
Rad!
Awesome news guys. I can’t wait to see what the new partnership brings
good stuff. promised. Zach jumped right into it. working on an exciting new stuff.
that’s wack zach. congrachs
Hey Zach! Nice to meet you and look forward to collaborating on amazing things!
out of curiousity, what losing teams do you and Zach root for?
on my list are:
NY Jets
NY Mets
NY Knicks
Sheffield Wednesday Football Club
Zach likes the Buffalo Bills.. which proved extremely painful last weekend.
I like the Knicks, which does not even try to raise your hopes, so in a way it is easier.
when i first moved to NYC someone told me I have to embrace the Mets, Jets, Knicks, Rangers package..
Whoa, very cool. Congrats Zach and the Boxee team! I look forward to ‘watching’ what materializes here.
[...] has the magic touch and we are very excited to have him on the team,” Boxee CEO Avner Ronen said on the company’s [...]
[...] “Zach has the magic touch and we are very excited to have him on the team,” stated Boxee CEO Avner Ronen said on the Boxee blog. Klein was on the founding team of Connected Ventures, the parent company of CollegeHumor.com, [...]
[...] has the magic touch and we are very excited to have him on the team,” stated Boxee CEO Avner Ronen said on the Boxee blog. Klein was on the founding team of Connected Ventures, the parent company of CollegeHumor.com, [...]