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TheWhir : What is Web Hosting Giant Go Daddy Looking for in a New CEO?

August 30, 2012 by Raymond Hackney

By: RH

TheWhir.com interviewed interim Go Daddy CEO Scott Wagner. Wagner  has taken over for Warren Adelman who spent about a year on the job.
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Wagner is an executive at KKR Capstone who led the buyout of Go Daddy last year along with Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures.

From the article :

"The board’s running a search,” says interim CEO Wagner in a phone
interview with the WHIR. “This is about continuing to ensure our
customers build up their businesses and succeed online. What does that
mean? It means intelligent geographic expansion, continuing to invest
and round out our productportfolio, both through acquisitions and
investments like Outright, and continuing to build on our strengths. “

Since the acquisition, as Wagner suggests, Go Daddy has extended its
business in a few of key ways that weren’t necessarily business as usual
for the web hosting giant. In July, Go Daddy acquired the aforementioned Outright, a financial management application.

It was Go Daddy’s first non hosting-related acquisition, but with
Outright’s more than 200,000 small business customers, the deal
represents both an opportunity to offer core Go Daddy services to those
new customers, as well as a much larger opportunity to provide an added
small-business service to the millions of customers using Go Daddy’s
hosting and domain services through Outright’s software.

Though Go Daddy will continue to run Outright as a separate business,
Go Daddy will eventually move the company on to its infrastructure
platform, says Wagner.

Since the acquisition, Wagner says he has been working with Go Daddy
to build up the web host’s international strategy, starting with growing
its presence in the India market. Go Daddy officially opened its
Hyderabad-based customer care facility in July, and the center has
already received more than 10,000 calls.

Read the whole article on TheWhir.com

It certainly seems like Go Daddy is transforming into an international company and it would not be surprising to see someone with an international background takeover.

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

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