Thursday, August 4, 2016

Report: Sling Media's Blake Krikorian Passes Away

Blake Krikorian, the UCLA graduate who founded Sling Media, the maker of the Slingbox, has died, at the age of 48, according to reports trickling out of Silicon Valley. Krikorian apparently died of a heart attack yesterday in the San Francisco area. Krikorian had received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA in 1990, and also played on UCLA's Men's Water Polo team. He moved to Silicon Valley after graduating from UCLA, but was also well known in Southern California's technology community.

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