The job vacancy may not have been announced yet, but GoDaddy will be looking for a new CEO.
Warren Adelman was officially made CEO of GoDaddy back in December of last year. Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire was one of the first to break the story yesterday and also managed to get GoDaddy’s founder, Bob Parsons, to make a few comments on the record.
Adelman has been with GoDaddy for the last 10 years, so “moving on” now that the company is so well established isn’t that surprising.
But what’s surprising and disturbing about the story is the quality of the coverage in some quarters.
Techcrunch ran the story last night claiming that Adelman had only been in the job for less than two months:
They updated the story at some point last night, but there’s no sign of an apology or anything else, so thousands of Techcrunch readers will have been fed false information!
So much for the quality of journalism ..
In any case .. best of luck to Warren Adelman for the future .. so now to see who will be his replacement ..
I’d say a CEO only staying around for only eight months is very surprising indeed.
Kevin
He was with GD for about 10 years and I suspect was doing the job of CEO for a lot longer than 8 months. It looks like Bob Parsons stepped back quite a bit from the “day to day” stuff quite some time ago to focus on his other interests.
In any case he probably got a nice pay out when the deal went through so taking a career break or whatever he’s doing isn’t that surprising
Not having a replacement beyond an “interim” one is a little surprising though
Thanks for your comment
Michele