Sling Media loses most of its top brass
By Laura June 
posted Jan 13th 2009 4:07AM
posted Jan 13th 2009 4:07AM
Sling Media announced today that they've lost their top executives, including co-founders (and brothers) Blake and Jason Krikorian, CEO and SVP of business development respectively. Also on the way out is Jason Hirschhorn and Ben White, President and Chief Creative Officer of Sling Media Entertainment Group, and Greg Wilkes the VP of sales. paidContent spoke with the effervescent Blake Krikorian, who said, "I'm out of there now. I want to just cut it ... it's best just to get it done because it's not easy." So much for being stoked about that EchoStar acquisition, huh?
This is to be expected. Typically in any acquisition, but especially a tech start up, the acquired company's top brass will stay on during the transition until all the dust settles. Then they either move on of their own accord, or are asked to leave. Usually the former. It doesn't mean anything (good or bad) for the company as a whole. They got their money, and now they want to move on to the next project, instead of withering in the corporate morass of the larger company.