Yaron’s Blog

My friends I have a special personal announcement to make today. Four years ago, on this day, I started working on an idea to change the way people and companies move and monetize high quality video online. That idea, which became a reality thanks to my co-founders Laird and Robert, our superstar team and some brave investors, blossomed into my greatest professional achievement to-date; Pando Networks. Today, with over 17 million users worldwide and media giants such as NBC as customers, Pando is a leader in the exciting Peer-Assisted Content Delivery space. We’re helping to standardize P2P so that it works for everyone and more importantly to ensure that our aging Internet doesn’t buckle under the tsunami of high quality video coming online. We’re also helping family and friends stay connected by sharing their life moments and creativity across continents with full-screen, full-length personal videos and media. Your enthusiastic feedback and support over the years has been my greatest daily reward. Thank you.

Pando has always been more than a job for me. It’s my baby and my passion. I’ve given it the best four years of my life and it has given me more than I could have imagined both personally and professionally. It now gives me great pride to realize that we’ve brought the company to a point where I can move on to my next crazy idea with the confidence that Pando is not only at the best place that its ever been, but that its being run by dear friends that are uniquely capable of taking it to the next level. Exciting things are ahead this year for Pando.

It’s with a mixture of sentimental reflection, deep gratitude and building forward excitement that today I announce my last full-time day at Pando. I’m jumping back in the water again and starting to work on my next company. I am transitioning from my day-to-day role as Pando’s CMO but will remain an active advisor, joining our distinguished advisory board. I will continue to help the company realize our ambitious mission of creating a new Internet infrastructure standard for efficient, secure and commercially viable rich media delivery. We’re at the right spot, at the right time, with the right people to do it.

So what’s next for me? First of all, a one-week vacation! I’ll be blogging about my new company on this blog in a few months so feel free to subscribe, but for now I’m going into stealth mode. I’ll still be organizing NY Video 2.0 and NY Israel Tech; two startup peer groups whose 2,000 creative thinkers have inspired me to get back out there again.

Stay in touch! (No really)
I’m always available at yaron@pando.com or my personal email address and you can find me online at LinkedIn, Facebook and Flickr.

Onward and upward!