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WebMD pulls plug on its CTO
Posted by Fired Fred on April 19, 2007 5:08 PM
David Gang's run as CTO at WebMD is being harvested for organs. The company fired him today with the kind of speed normally reserved for ambulances leaving a crash scene for the emergency room.
Whatever he did to earn that dismissal isn't in the official statement. The 'About WebMD' section is longer than the 'Good night and good luck' statement the company made.
I'd normally paste that here, but it's boring as hearing little kids at the bus stop whining about Sanjaya getting voted off American Idol. Happily for me, Valleywag has snarked it up a bit, bringing in a quote unquote AOL refugee to talk about David's reputation at the job he had before he had the WebMD gig...
I knew David a bit at AOL -- more by reputation than personally, although personally a little, too. He's -- how you say? -- a total c***sucker. It was a rare happy day at AOL when David's departure was announced.If I were David, I'm pretty sure I would have passed on the orange cream punch at the farewell potluck for fear of any way-too-all-natural additives.
But why toss the guy from WebMD? Did they catch him changing things like a prognosis for hangnails from treatable to terminal on the website? Did he replace the anatomically correct images with, you know, really anatomically correct images?