How badly is Yahoo! doing?

[yesthattom]

Well, you don’t replace a CEO when you are doing well.

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[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

You don't? (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/07/BU56303.DTL&type=business)

[n5red.livejournal.com]

You certainly sound smug about it. Not like your usual self at all.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I'm simply excited that this means their current direction (which could be described as "down the drain") may be reversed if they finally get a good CEO.

I use a LOT of their products. -- Anything they do to improve their company will help me.

I have been a long-time user of their products. -- I'd hate to see a product that I'm comfortable with go away.

When I lecture/teach on using technology in grassroots organizing I always recommend many Yahoo! products. -- It hurts my reputation when products I have recommended go south.


What do you mean smug?

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Well, since you work for a large company that competes in some of the same areas, I got the impression that you were happy about Yahoo's troubles. It seems I was wrong.

Also, with the new office opening, will you be coming to visit Austin anytime soon?

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I didn't say I wasn't happy they are stumbling. :-)

Austin: Sorry, just 'cause I'm in the group that deploys new offices doesn't mean I get to visit them. :-( In fact, it's my teams job to figure out ways to open offices faster with fewer actual visits.

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you go to cool places like Zurich & Dublin, but won't even come visit people you know in Austin. I feel so rejected.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

:)

[etler.livejournal.com]

You may genuinely not realize this, but since you've been with your current employer your commentary has had a distinct slant in that direction. It's totally understandable of course. I do the same thing with my employer. But, if your intention is to present a non-biased view of your marketspace you might want to take a closer look at what you've been saying. At least in this blog. I haven't really seen any of your other publications.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

None of the positive things I said is in conflict with the fact that I would benefit financially from Yahoo!'s demise, and grin every time they stumble. On the other hand, by them staying in business it gives Microsoft two targets to shoot at, which is much better than any other situation I could imagine.

[qnetter]

Yeah, actually, you sometimes do. Veritas, for instance, replaced its CEO near its peak, and it was his idea. Yahoo didn't in this case, but "doing so badly they replaced the CEO" is not really a sound argument.

[ted-badger.livejournal.com]

Yyyyuuuupppppp.

Monster shares fall after management shakeup

"Iannuzzi, who succeeded William Pastore as Monster CEO, is the third CEO for the company in less than a year."

The article seems to have been written before we swapped out CFOs later that week as well.

[gravitrue.livejournal.com]

"non-executive chairman" ????

That's the lamest "he knows enough about our operations and where the bodies are buried that we're keeping him around on a stipend" job title I've ever heard.

And that speech about upcoming changes was really heavy on the bizspeak.