jeff-dachis

Razorfish founder Jeff Dachis returns, trading New York for Texas

Owen Thomas · 04/28/08 11:40AM

New York entrepreneur Jeff Dachis has landed $50 million from Austin Ventures to fund a comeback — but not as a New York entrepreneur. He's trading a 212 office line for one in the 512, to launch a new company promising to bring the Web 2.0 revolution to businesses. Despite the change in venue, and the new version number, that sounds eerily like the premise of Razorfish a decade ago — the digital consultancy which Dachis launched, and whose value he watched plummet from $5.5 billion at the height of the 2000 bubble to $8.2 million in a 2002 fire sale. So what is Dachis's company, if not simply Razorfish 2.0?

Facebook faces "60 Minutes" inquisition

Owen Thomas · 11/29/07 03:41PM

Facebook has bigger problems than the possibility of an FTC inquiry. 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl recently visited the company's Palo Alto offices, says Kara Swisher of AllThingsD. According to Swisher, Stahl interviewed CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Kelly, the network's chief privacy officer. Which can only mean one thing: A major exposé on Facebook coming soon on the hard-hitting CBS news show. Don't think it's serious?

Jeff "Expendable" Dachis

Gawker · 04/02/03 12:35PM

A reader on Razorfish* CEO Jeff Dachis: "I saw something about Razorfish on Friday and, curiosity sparked, decided to Google 'Jeff Dachis.' One of the hits that came back was a bad, indy horror flick from the early 90s, called There's Nothing Out There. Jeff Dachis plays the guy who says, 'Awww, there's nothing out there!', and subsequently walks off into the woods to be slaughtered. Unfortunately for the net worth of countless late-90s tech investors, his early-90s death at the hands of an alien space-monster was entirely fictional.