JP jumps ship

Posted on September 28th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki

My mate JP Rangaswami - one of the most important thinkers in the spaces of technology, networks, conversation, the internet, and a bunch of other subjects - has left investment bank DrKW and joined BT Global Services as their CIO. When I heard this news the other day, I wasn’t entirely surprised; I knew JP had lots of companies after him. But I was surprised - and remain so - that BT is smart enough to get someone like JP, who describes himself as “a retarded hippie at heart“, on their board. I might just have to stop damning them to hell all the time. In fact, I might just have to buy some shares in BT…

Filed under: Business, Friends, Technology

« The first freakout of the day comes early More on the mp3 player market »

4 Responses to “JP jumps ship”

  1. Franziska, on September 28th, 2006 at 4:38 pm Said:

    Well, having been without broadband all day until now due to a BT fault I hope it only gets better now… (without knowing JP!)

  2. Jackie Danicki, on September 28th, 2006 at 5:56 pm Said:

    Hmm, good point. Note to self: Bombard JP with every issue I have with BT, every time I see him…Heh.

  3. Jackie Danicki » Like I said, maybe it’s time to buy BT stock, on October 6th, 2006 at 2:01 pm Said:

    […] Doc Searls on JP’s move to BT: The real story is that a major carrier is finally starting to grok, at the top, that the main benefits to incumbency are not just ownership of the pipes. There are countless creative things that an incumbent carrier — with existing relationships with customers, with “plant” all over the place, with science and business advantages out the wazoo — can do to make money, other than just by creating false (or any other kind of) scarcities in the backbone and the last mile (or acre, in the case of wireless). Posted by Jackie Danicki | […]

  4. Jackie Danicki » Why BT is so crap, on February 20th, 2007 at 1:39 pm Said:

    […] That BT Global Services has hired JP Rangaswami as its CIO does give me hope, but I don’t suppose BT Global Services has a whole lot to do with the crappy service BT home customers receive. (If I am wrong, I am sure Michael will enlighten me.) Posted by Jackie Danicki | […]

Leave a Reply