Carbonite CEO admits dropping Limbaugh hurt growth more than expected

Legal Insurrection ^ | Friday, August 3, 2012 at 12:13pm | William A. Jacobson

[StAnDeliver]

"Update: Carbonite shareholders have another reason to worry. Friend has just started a potentialy competitive online storage company with a recently departed executive.” Friend was the man in the interview, the CEO of Carbonite.

So the CEO that made this decision, got together with a “recently departed executive” (planned?) and started a competing business? Did this guy sabotage his own company purposely? Or does he just think he is the wheeler dealer of the year?

In any case, looks like he single handedly destroyed Carbonite."

Wow, he trapdoored Carbonite. And the remaining shareholders will just sit there and take the punch in the face...

[A Navy Vet]

"Wow, he trapdoored Carbonite. And the remaining shareholders will just sit there and take the punch in the face... "

My guess is that Carbonite and Friend's new competitor will both fold. Other than someone's home or business burning down and not having back up in another location (which rare for business), I still don't understand the benefit of "cloud" backup. Sheesh, you can buy mega, mega, mega bits of storage for nothing nowadays.

Unless you're not there and haven't backup elsewhere, you can just grab your SD card, thumb drive, or external hard drive (300+GB's) and run in an emergency! Or just grab your frigging laptop that probably has more than 300GB's. Guess it's about not being home or at work when a fire or tornado hits and you want to pay some "cloud" for backup when there are so many ways to do it otherwise?

Am I the only one who thinks this was a stupid idea? Plus, if hackers can break into Pentagon security - Carbonite is foolproof? Sheesh. Buy some thumbdrives and/or an external hard drives. I don't get the problem.

I have a 300 GB Maxtor external hard drive and I simply right click on the files I want to transfer and scroll down to the Maxtor drive. Click copy and done. I can grab and run. But then most of my files, including graphics are on a 32GB thumb drive.

Yes, you videophiles and businesses need more - so buy a back up server (cheap now) and transfer your files off location via encryption. I'm a novice, but even I can see this a solution for a non-problem.

BTW, did you know you cannot delete your Facebook page? I've tried. If I log back on - there it is. You can disable it, but never delete your info. Zfuckerberg is a brilliant pr**k.