Jaxtr CEO Is Out
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1st November 2008 02:51 AM #1
Jaxtr CEO Is Out
Two weeks after laying off 30 percent of his employees, Jaxtr CEO Konstantin Guericke finds himself out of a job. He is being replaced by vice president of engineering Bahman Koohestani (former CTO at Cyworld and Orbitz), who will be acting as "interim" CEO.Jaxtr offers VoIP calls to both your regular and mobile phone. Its last round was a $10 million Series B in June. Investors include Lehman Brothers Venture Capital (yup, they are still around), August Capital, Mangrove, Mayfield, DFJ, and angels Ron Conway and Reid Hoffman. (Guericke was part of the founding team at LinkedIn). The company is obviously going through a rough time, but Koohestani still spins it as a "very healthy" business. He offers the following partial stats:
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1st November 2008 03:44 AM #2
Re: Jaxtr CEO Is Out

Originally Posted by
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Two weeks after
laying off 30 percent of his employees, Jaxtr CEO Konstantin Guericke finds himself out of a job. He is being replaced by vice president of engineering Bahman Koohestani (former CTO at Cyworld and Orbitz), who will be acting as "interim" CEO.
Jaxtr offers VoIP calls to both your regular and mobile phone. Its last round was a
$10 million Series B in June. Investors include Lehman Brothers Venture Capital (yup, they are still around), August Capital, Mangrove, Mayfield, DFJ, and angels Ron Conway and Reid Hoffman. (Guericke was part of the founding team at LinkedIn). The company is obviously going through a rough time, but Koohestani still spins it as a "very healthy" business. He offers the following partial stats:
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