{"id":103,"date":"2005-10-22T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T09:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=103"},"modified":"2010-09-23T16:20:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:20:42","slug":"two-ya-com-jazztel-fon-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Two from Ya.com and one from Jazztel on FON\u2019s board"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m beefing up FON\u2019s board and decided to ask former Jazztel<\/a> and Ya.com<\/a> colleagues to jump on the FON bandwagon. And I\u2019m thrilled they\u2019ve accepted. On the Ya.com side, we have Alvaro Ibanez (a.k.a Alvy), who\u2019s very well known here in Spain with Microsiervos <\/a>and Internality, <\/a>and Jon Berrojalbiz, who started the very successful TradingMotion <\/a>. On the Jazztel side, I\u2019m joined by former managing director Antonio Fuentes, who has partnered with me on Sybilla <\/a>and who is its CEO.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, we have parties and get-togethers with all those who worked at Jazztel and Ya.com in the early days. For me, they\u2019re like Christmas parties in the office, with a strong feelings of d\u00e9j\u00e0-vu mixed with memories of intense work.<\/p>\n

How many entered these companies as employees and left as entrepreneurs? What about Miguel Salis, ex CFO of Jazztel, who is now building wind farms across Spain valued at over 200 million euros.<\/p>\n

And Axel Serena, other one who really made it and who, I\u2019ve heard, is about to lift off pretty soon.<\/p>\n

What do I want from people who work for me? Well, basically I\u2019d like to see my employees enjoy their last stint as an \u201cemployee\u201d with me!<\/p>\n

Jon, for example, had the the entrepreneurial spirit in his early 20s. I met him in 1999 when he was still a student but had already registered the domain favoritos.com, which I liked very much. When I saw that he owned it, I asked him if he wanted to sell it to me. Jon simply answered : \u201cI know who you are and if you interview me,I will give it to you\u201d. From there, we started working together, him, first as an employee, then as a partner and now as business buddies. Ya.com and Jazztel were, more than anything, made up of people who dreamed of creating something. For those who are nostaligic, here is an old powerpoint that tells the Ya.com story from the very beginning.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m beefing up FON\u2019s board and decided to ask former Jazztel and Ya.com colleagues to jump on the FON bandwagon. And I\u2019m thrilled they\u2019ve accepted. On the Ya.com side, we have Alvaro Ibanez (a.k.a Alvy), who\u2019s very well known here in Spain with Microsiervos and Internality, and Jon Berrojalbiz, who started the very successful TradingMotion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[360,364,232,722,23,413,227],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fon","tag-companies","tag-employment","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-fon","tag-jazztel","tag-miguel-salis","tag-ya-com"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t