Geekdom boss Rushton departs

Tim Burrowes

January 15, 2010 10:22

Geekdom boss Troy Rushton has left the troubled Photon-owned internet company to start his own internet technology firm.

Rushton claimed that he was still consulting with Geekdom on “a few joint projects” and had left the company on “good” terms.

His new venture, called Geekhub, specialises in domain development and has launched with 15 staff. Rushton said many of the staff have come from Geekdom.

He added that he left Geekdom over the Christmas period and it is understood the company is still hunting his replacement.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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Geekdom Geekversity Photon Troy Rushton

2 COMMENTS

John Harris 19 Jan 10

So Rushton masterminds a product that causes bad PR, mass redundancies & legal threats for Photon only to start a new venture based on the same unproven business model??

Genius or insanity?

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Carmen 27 Jan 10

Actually the insane one wasn’t Rushton but Photon. They gave him the money and freedom to do whatever he wants. He wasted all their money, made losses (basically in training & development and experimenting online and then they let him leave and take all the resources they paid for (i.e money and time spent developing staff) and let him start a similar business without Photon!

Photon is the joke here. What a waste of Photons shareholder money!

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