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March 31 - Linden Lab with Tom Hale

Metanomics interviewed Tom Hale, Chief Product Officer for Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) on Wednesday, March 31.

Tom Hale has been with Linden Lab since 2008 and handles the product strategy for the Lab. Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield interviewed Tom Hale on Wednesday, March 31 at 12pm PST about the busy year Linden Lab has had, from launching its Second Life Viewer 2 Beta, Second Life Enterprise and a new plan for orientation and supporting new members into Second life. Linden Lab was founded in 1999 and launched Second Life, where Metanomics is filmed, in 2003. You can watch the show on this page.

While Metanomics has interviewed employees from Linden Lab before, including CEO Mark Kingdon and founder Philip Rosedale as well as some of the people involved in launching the new Second Life viewer, we felt this was a great opportunity to discuss some of the high level strategy and planning that goes into launching new products for a virtual environment. From planning to distribution, as well as how the company handles criticism and praise for its advances, Rob Bloomfield and Tom Hale discussed a wide variety of topics.

Guest Biographies

Tom Hale

Tom Hale joined Linden Lab in September 2008 as Chief Product Officer. Tom drives the product strategy for Linden Lab’s diverse offerings, reporting directly to Linden Lab’s CEO, Mark Kingdon. Hale brings over 15 years of experience in product development, marketing and management to Linden Lab having most recently served as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) at Redpoint Ventures. Prior to Redpoint, Tom served as Vice President and General Manager for Adobe Systems’ Knowledge Worker Business Unit where he drove strategy for the Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Connect and Flash Media Server product lines. Prior to joining Adobe, Tom served a variety of senior roles at Macromedia, where he helped establish Flash as a web development standard and oversaw a learning and training business unit that generated over $100 million annually. Prior to his tenure at Macromedia, Tom was the director of sales and marketing at Fauve Software, an imaging software company. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University.