Dan Rosensweig
Dan Rosensweig
Dan Rosensweig is an American business executive, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chegg. Previously, Rosensweig served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Guitar Hero, a series of music rhythm games published by RedOctane and Harmonix, Chief Operating Officer at Yahoo!, President of CNET, and President and Chief Executive Officer of ZDNet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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There's a big difference in doing it in scale and in respecting users' privacy. When you do this with 250m people or more in multiple languages, you really want to make it secure.
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This is good for consumers; it's just a lot harder to do when you're flying an airplane as fast as these companies are flying and you want to change the engine at the same time. We have to get it right.
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In the whole mix of Internet advertising, we feel like we are sitting in the pole position.
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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For people to make a lot of money on these things, you're going to have to have massive audiences. Sometimes it might be better to share a piece of a much larger audience than it is to keep 100% of a much smaller audience.
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It's about providing a service that users really want.
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It was a great goal. Kat drove in a tremendous cross and Callie's finish was impressive both athletically and technically.
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The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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We saw the opportunity for both companies to seize the day.