Boxee CEO: The Trouble with Hulu

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/19/Paley_Center_IC2009_-_Hunt_for_the_Next_Big_Thing

Boxee CEO Avner Ronen discusses his company's much-publicized disagreement with web video site Hulu. "We hope to bring Hulu back as a partner one of these days," he explains, arguing "we still need to resolve that concern that media companies have with regard to disrupting their channels."

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The Paley Center for Media's International Council 2009 NYC brought together the industry's top innovators from across the globe for the most talked about media event of 2009.

This session highlights a handful of up-and-coming digital media companies vying to become the Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace of 2010.

The conversation features Avner Ronen (CEO, Boxee), Tony Haile (General Manager, Chartbeat), Doug Knopper (Co-founder and Co-CEO, FreeWheel), Justin Shaffer (Founder and CEO, Hot Potato), Mike Dougherty (CEO and Co-founder, Jelli), Peter Rojas (Co-Founder, gdgt.com), and Andrew Lacy (Co-founder and COO, Tapulous). Quincy Smith (CEO, CBS Interactive) moderates.

Avner Ronen is CEO of Boxee. Before starting Boxee, Mr. Ronen was the Head of Corporate Development and M&A for Comverse, Inc. a leading provider of software and service to Telecom service providers. Mr. Ronen was responsible for acquisitions valued at $450M, which were key to the company's evolution from a Voicemail company to a Billing and VAS provider.

Mr. Ronen joined Comverse in 2002 when they acquired Odigo, a company he co-founded in 1998. Odigo was one of the early Instant Messaging services on the web serving over 8M users worldwide.

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[solomonkane23]

frak cable. they want to turn internet 2 into pay cable.

[JasonMelancon]

You know, Fora TV, I'm not especially interested in all these industry bigwigs pontificating on how they're going to rule the internet. If this is all you have these days, just change your name to NetCEOsRus, so we can look for something else instead.

[ACMEphotography]

What makes Boxee different from roku??/

[ACMEphotography]

What makes Boxee differant from roku??/

[phpprodesign]

vonage is dying,cable is dying and they know it. i do not have cable tv anymore -just watch hulu and netflix.Im tired of paying for 100 channels of what i dont watch and paying over 100 a month. Monopolies need to die.I certainly dont get a refund for what channels i dont watch.

[phpprodesign]

@LeadPaintSandwich 

[djbanizza]

hello, my name is Boxxy

[thegreatpadaxes]

That is until the net 2.0....

[wheresurhat]

Hulu, YouTube and sites like Facebook, etc do not dominate the internet. Not by a long shot. And no, the internet isn't THEIR domain. It's OUR domain. And if we weren't posting here, it'd be on a message forum. Just like this forum allows communication. Sorry if I'm not making sense, I'm tired from coming home from work.

[eszettfromhell]

What is Boxee? I've never heard of it.

[CharBroiled04]

@JasonMelancon,

No, I don't thumb down someone I disagree with. I only thumb (up or down), based on the value of their input to the discussion; even (read especially) if they disagree with me.

[CharBroiled04]

Hulu, YouTube, Facebook, etc.... they dominate the internet. They own it, like it or not. Do I mean they literally have the rights to it? No. But the internet is THEIR domain. The only reason we're having this discussion is because YouTube (and therefore Google) allows and provides for it.