Shortest-Tenured CEOs in History

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 29 September 2011, 00:43 IST
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5. Owen Van Natta, Myspace (10 months): CEO from: April.2009 - Feb.2010
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Owen Van Natta was the COO of Facebook before leading online music startup Project Playlist. He seemed a natural fit for the top job at MySpace.But that wasn't the case.Van Natta vacated his position in less than a year's time, with MySpace being virtually no better off than it was when he started. Rumors swirled upon his exit that he had been trying to get fired to get out of the foundering company.