From Business Week:
The idea is that Brickhouse will give Yahoo a way to push the envelope and develop brand-new projects, while employees have the chance to experiment with ideas far from their day-to-day jobs. Horowitz is well aware of the risks. “The Valley is littered with examples of how this doesn’t work,” he says. But he compares what he and Fake are doing to what record label executives do, searching out the best talent. “Caterina and I think of ourselves as A&R people, signing up bands,” he says.
It’s an interesting image. Real A&R people sign bands - the output from a company, not the company itself. I wonder if that’s what YHOO are doing - buying back catalogues? Hiring artists, for N albums?
I think maybe Google are.
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