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Many of the large technology companies are well known for purchasing new, innovative products developed by smaller companies. As part of his work at Yahoo, Bradley Horowitz leads in-house teams trying to advance new ideas from within. He joins Phil and Scott to talk about Yahoo's development plans and how the company hopes to grow the next Flickr internally.
As he discusses his background, Bradley reviews his experience with Virage, a company he co-founded that was later sold to Autonomy. He also talks about how the Advanced Development Division is structured and its main mandate to help make Yahoo move innovative. He also talks about Yahoo's Hack Yahoo program, where developers are given the opportunity to take ideas from idea to prototype in a very short period.
Bradley Horowitz, Vice President of Yahoo!'s Advanced Development Division, leads Yahoo!'s efforts in building innovative products and services company-wide. His team manages programs such as Hack Yahoo!, a grassroots program to foster and harvest innovation throughout the company, and Y! Agile, a methodology for product development based on iterative design principles. Additionally Horowitz oversees the Brickhouse and Advanced Products teams, which provide resource and opportunity for the company’s next-generation innovations. Previously, he managed a portfolio of products for Yahoo! including media search, desktop search, the Yahoo! Developer Network, and the Yahoo! Toolbar.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Horowitz served as both CTO and the vice president of engineering for the Virage division of Autonomy, where he was responsible for the technical delivery of five major product lines. Prior to Autonomy, he was CTO and co-founder of Virage, the company widely recognized as the market creator and leader for advanced media indexing and analysis. Horowitz helped grow the company from "a garage startup" through its NASDAQ IPO.
Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.
Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
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