Goowy Team Bails Out Of AOL To Start Assistly
October 13, 2009 at 20:39 PM EDT
It's the way of many acquisitions - a startup gets bought, and a couple of years later, after the earnout expires, the founders get an itch to start something new. AOL acquired Goowy , a creator of Flash widgets, in early 2008. Now, we've confirmed, the core team - Alex Bard , Gary Benitt and Jeremy Suriel , have left AOL to start their next company, Assistly. Brad Birnbaum , formerly the CTO of eShare and Talisma, joins them as well. So what is Assistly ? We don't know much yet. The website says little more than "Coming soon... Customer service done right. Brought to you by Alex Bard, Brad Birnbaum, Jeremy Suriel and Gary Benitt." But I did manage to get a little bit of information out of Bard. He says of Assistly: