Col Needham will be succeeded by Nikki Santoro, who has been IMDbs chief operating officer since 2021.Varietyearlierreportedthe news.
Amazon bought IMDb back in 1998, and the company claims to have more than 250 million monthly users.
Nobody wants to tell their boss the job is done and there is no more work to do.
Col Needham, founder of IMDb, has stepped down as CEO after 35 years.Rich Polk/Getty
Eventually that leads to a bloated product with features users do not really need.
A better way to run IMDb perhaps would be to look toward its parent company.
The user interface of Amazon.com has changed very little over the years.
When it creates a new feature like Prime Video, the company silos it inside its own tab.
Prime Video is not a core feature that is forced on users.
and X remain large properties despite years of mismanagement and chaos, for instance.
Digg is a rare example of a large social networking site that was effectivelykilled by a disastrous redesign.
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