Ask.com Loses CEO Jim Lanzone

Jim Lanzone is out as Chief Executive Officer of Ask.com, replaced by Jim Safka, CEO of IAC’s Match.com. Valleywag is reporting that Lanzone was fired by parent company IAC’s CEO Barry Diller, who was reportedly frustrated with delays in launching Ask’s new news site. Even if a product is well-delayed, there’s no one who can doubt that Ask.com was a much improved company under the stewardship of Lanzone, and Diller’s decision really looks like a mistake to me.
From what I’ve seen of Jim, he certainly seemed passionate about the company we worked at the last six years. Jim started as Ask’s VP of product management, was promoted to Senior VP and general manager of Ask.com, and made his way up to CEO. He was a real Ask.com guy, the type of guy who either sits comfortably and does nothing, or is excited by the job and […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg