Mar 29
No one said Bob Kimball’s job was going to be easy when he took the reigns from RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, about a year ago. Kimball had been serving as the company’s attorney for a decade before ascending to Real’s top spot. The past decade hadn’t been particularly kind to the company, but Kimball was reportedly working to rebuild the once ubiquitous streaming media provider.
And then on Monday, he stepped down, opting for a different, unspecified job–and to “spend more time with his family.” Kimball’s year was something of a continuation of the company’s slide, with sales falling 29 percent in the year.
Glaser, not surprisingly, has no interest in stepping back up, but he did say some nice things about Kimball on his exit, “he’s been associated with some of Real’s most important and exciting developments…I’m hightly empathetic to the fact there comes a time when you want to step back and get on a different boat.”
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