Comments on: Happy One Year Anniversary, Jerry

By: P@

P@ — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:07:18 +0000

Hurray for Jerry and Yahoo! for successfully fighting off a hostile takeover by MicroGreed. MG would have gutted Yahoo! like a carp and left years of product research, innovation and creativity floundering for existence. With MG out of the immediate spotlight, Carl has lost his platform for media attention. Hopefully he’ll lose interest altogether and find another struggling company to conquer. Hang in there Jerry, great new Yahoo! products are in the pipeline and ready to thrill, amaze and yodel the world once again.

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By: Holt Lyda

Holt Lyda — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:34:55 +0000

Viva Yahoo!… Onward, upward!

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Yahoo、良き日の思い出 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:23:34 +0000

[...] 本日（米国時間6/18）は、Yahooの設立者であるジェリー・ヤンのCEOとして1歳の誕生日だ。何人ものエグゼクティブが社を去り、何週間もの間悪いニュースばかりだった。四半期決算を発表した同社に対し、GoogleとMicrosoftはYahooに残されたものを奪い取ろうとタッグを組んでいる。 [...]

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Yahoo: Flashback To The Good Days — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:03:34 +0000

[...] is Jerry Yang’s first anniversary as CEO of the company he founded. There will be lots of bad news coming out about the company in the [...]

By: dehkad

dehkad — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:46:07 +0000

Thanks for this hard hitting post

By: Startup Meme » Blog Archive » Jerry completed his one year at Yahoo!

Startup Meme » Blog Archive » Jerry completed his one year at Yahoo! — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:45:22 +0000

[...] Jerry Yang has completed his one year of great service at Yahoo! as a CEO, today. Back on June 18th, 2007 he joined Yahoo! with deep [...]

By: Ivan Drago

Ivan Drago — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:30:35 +0000

Where is the article on Microsoft? Arent they trailing google also? As much as Balmer likes to talk the only thing keeping Microsoft afloat is the Windows/Office monopoly.

Arrington is trying to become the Howard Stern of blogging.

By: Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:27:52 +0000

I wrote a blog post about this (specifically, about Yahoo considering buying Myspace after Jerry Yang took over) with my suggestions for how to improve Yahoo:
http://www.alivenotdead.com/ro.....10031.html

Still think it would have been the best route for them to take. Of course, they didn’t do any of it.

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:02:54 +0000

I understand why everyone is jumping on the “I hate Yahoo” bandwagon. It is hard not to with the bad press they are getting. However everyone is overlooking one key thing. What fun it would be to lead Yahoo right now.

I liken it to taking over the New York Knicks and making them a winner. Sure Yahoo is down and out. Sure it looks like they made a bad deal. But talk about a chance for someone to really make a name for themselves.

To be able to go into Yahoo, remake the company, and bring it back to where it will be a real competitor to Google. What would be more fun?

Sure they are losing so called key people but maybe it is time to clean house. Yahoo has been lost for a long, long time. They have many innovative useful features, but no idea how to sell or present them to users. All the pieces to compete with Google in terms of infrastructure is there. They just don’t know how to put the pieces together.

All it takes is building a team with a real solid vision.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:39:02 +0000

@Microboo - ummm…If you’re trying to defend Jerry Yang Apple might not be the best example. Considering the fact that Apple was messed up and what they did to fix it was to oust the CEO and put the place under completely new management.

I don’t recall anyone saying Apple was doomed a year after Jobs was back in charge.

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:05:28 +0000

Mike,
I love it. TechCrunch is equally as informative as it is entertaining. Rock on man.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:04:54 +0000

The very fact that Yahoo! is still around is something amazing. They started in 1994, after all! They could have so easily gone the way of the World Wide Web Worm or countless other sites that weren’t able to stand the test of time. Instead, Yahoo! is still one of the most popular web sites on the Internet as well as the second most popular search engine and it continues to be a profitable company. Happy anniversary, Jerry Yang! You’ve got a lot to be proud about, but a lot to prove as well.

By: them

them — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:14:46 +0000

not sure whether to wish him or not, so decided not to being he doesn’t deserve it.

By: microboo

microboo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:02:33 +0000

Some of you are amazing. You think Jerry single handedly did this to Yahoo!. No, it was Semel, and Yang is working on cleaning up his mess. Top execs leaving? Good riddance. They’re part of the problem anyways, according to a lot of you bashing Yahoo! right? So who wants people working for them that don’t believe in the brand, or that it can and will bounce back. I remember when everyone looked at Apple the same way.. Given time to do their own thing, they didn’t turn out half bad.

The tech industry is not a short term investment, nor should it be. And who cares about Google?? They’re a search engine, Yahoo! is a media company with search, stop comparing them and focus on other aspects of Yahoo!. PPC is pittance to what the new world of display ads is going to be.

Be honest.. how much attention do YOU pay to sponsored results?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:59:09 +0000

I think it’s a little bit early to count him out, personally I never used the site, but now I go there daily.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ジェリー、一周年おめでとう。 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:56:49 +0000

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By: MyWidowMaker

MyWidowMaker — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:16:14 +0000

millionaires and billionaires get lazy real quick. bottomline yahoo is through. lost all respect sleeping with google. complete desperation. where the hell is panama. dont blame semmel. this fiasco is on everybodies hands. end of the day who cares, the people losing money on yahoo can afford too……….there rich anyway you look at it. you wont find any grandmas on a fixed income invested in yahoo.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:15:06 +0000

Did someone get the vision? I got lost among the usual big corporation BS about innovation and operational excellence.

Come on, something exciting for the millions using Yahoo everyday - and I’m not talking about another useless homepage/webmail/what-have-you redesign.

Maybe Steve Jobs could help… iYahoo?

By: parker

parker — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:56:53 +0000

yahoo! should change its name to “ohwell :(” or something similar. i’ve supported them for a long time, but (post google deal), i’m done. the deadpool now awaits . . .

By: Malthus

Malthus — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:53:13 +0000

We get it: Michael Arrington doesn’t like Yahoo and he especially doesn’t like Jerry Yang.

I don’t either.

But this gives new meaning to the phrase “broken record” and I can’t help but ask myself: just what is Arrington trying to accomplish here?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:50:58 +0000

Great Post. Tom (above) touches on the key issue. Are they a media company? Are they a technology company? Or are that going to lead the pack and learn how to combine the two and create an entirely new category? (Which is what MSFT and many others are trying to do.)

No answer from Jerry - his “vision” is a summary of operational skills. Those could apply to any company. That, by definition, is not vision, strategy, or a roadmap to success.

Should’ve been acquired by MSFT…

By: sam

sam — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:44:53 +0000

thought this was tuesday…. not let’s bitch about yahoo/jerry again day!

mike.. gotta hand it to you.. you’re like a screaming guy who won’t let go of something, until the next something comes along.

but the funny thing is.. you haven’t had a major role in anything/organization that’s even a fraction of the size of yahoo…

hmmm.. so just why should your opinion about this matter…

peace