If any formally well paid yahoo employees want to work for a bootstrapped startup, lets talk.

wow — not just a large absolute number, but it implies there were (and are) a gaggle of titled folks there. who’s actually doing the work? almost bank-like title inflation?

michael does jerry owe you money or something
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enough yahoo threads

Happy for Jeremy Zawodny, but on the whole this list is just depressing. It’s not like Yahoo’s traffic is dying or there are huge outward problems with services going down, but it’s being gutted like a sinking ship.

I do hope Yahoo turns it around but this is tough to watch.

Yahoo threads are getting WAY old. Seriously, what is going on today? First the pulled thread TinyUrl fiasco then we have this?

Any new start-ups you’d like to talk about?

So 114 have left in a year and a half, which is admittedly a large number (including Jeff Weiner, who will most certainly be missed) , but I am curious to know how out of how many executive positions this was, to get a percentage going and start looking at a turnover rate type of equation. Michael, you obviously have a tap in the Y! offices, can you help me out with this one?

114 seems like a large number in isolation, but I’d be curious about what the base rate for similar internet companies is over the same period. How many execs left Google or Microsoft in the last 18mo?

If you’re going to keep posting on the same topic, at least give some sort of original spin on it. Stir up conversation. Suggest pros/cons. Come on. This is just a waste of your site.

Yeah, we know - people are leaving Yahoo. So who’s coming in!?!??? That would be a good post. What an INCREDIBLE opportunity for so many talented people to come in and help re-shape an amazing company that is going through a BRIEF hard time.

I heard that Yahoo and Google swapped transportation companies. Now there’s a rumor! Go Mike, bite into that one. It should be good for at least a dozen articles over the next week.

This is a heck of a brain drain from Yahoo, if they do recover, I wonder how long it will be before they can get the same expertise working for them again. That being said, we are only seeing the “outgoing” not “incoming” picture and some of these people would have maybe left anyways once their contractual “we buy you, you must stay with Yahoo for x years” expired.

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@Wayne - 2 problems I see with your business. 1, you describe your business as the ebay for take out orders. So I have to bid on my meals and hope I beat someone out just to eat? (this is what I think of, when you say ebay - I would change that statement) and 2. I would be afraid to order food from people that make it in their home. Are their kitchens regulated by some type of sanitary food organization? I see a lawsuit in the making when someone gets food poisoning, salmonella or dies.

The idea is cool Wayne, but I got half way through your presentation and thought hmmmmm.

@#7 - I agree completely! What’s the deal here Michael? Let’s get a list of how many exec positions were operating during that time, and a matching list for Google and MSN. At least that way this post would actually be worth something and #8 wouldn’t feel like you just wasted our time with this piece that is more propaganda than news.

I’m a REALTOR® and this reminds me of the mortgage implosion website.

http://ml-implode.com/

Yahoo++

Suck it Arrington. They’ll just get better people.

You held out as long as you could in writing a post about Yahoo didn’t you? Got the shakes after a few hours and you needed your next fix?

January 2007 isn’t impressive at all. Talk about how many have left since Microsoft made it’s offer, or pulled it’s offer, or something, anything. At least compare it to how many have left Google, MS and Facebook.

Seriously, even Digg had to listen to it’s members after the whole encryption key fiasco. Read the comments Mike and move on, this horse is dead and decomposing.

@16

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gee.....256982.php

Just in case anybody forgot. I made sure and posted a link from competing site Gizmodo.
In 2005 I had an influx of white supremacists to my social network. I let them stay for a month in the spirit of Jerry Springer style freedom of speech. I eventually had to kick them out when they started threatening people, but I lost tens of thousands of members because of it. I am only now starting to recover from that, and that was THREE years ago.
Take notes Mike.

Enough with the Yahoo! threads. OK, got it, the ship`s sinking

@11 RBK,

The http://zapmeals.com was a fake company for supernova 2007.

Hmmm…first the press gets on Yahoo! for being top heavy, now the press gets on Yahoo! for shaving its executive ranks.

Is it really that unusual to see an increase in departures at any company once it’s clear that a potential buyout isn’t happening? Leading up to it, anybody with options tends to stick around for the vesting and big payout, even those really wanting to move on. Now that it’s not likely happening, many who’ve been thinking about leaving to do something different (join a VC firm, a startup, whatever) are deciding against waiting around for the turnaround.

This Yahoo stuff is boooooooring and not even good reporting. It’s comedy that Owen - whoops, I mean Mike - is including anyone with a director-level title as an “executive.” Please. I know Sarah Ross works for Tech Crunch, but she not an “executive level” employee - and neither were half half the people on the list. And similarly, probably by their own admission, it was time for most of these people to leave anyway. I’m not saying Yahoo doesn’t have it’s problems, but this is just inaccurate representation of facts. Thanks for the awesome reporting Valleywag!

Hey. You guys wanted proof things were bad. Take a look at this list. What do you say now? Huh? Huh? I can’t HEAR you.

You keep saying Arrington had gone off the deep end. Well look at this list will you. It’s a goddam list. And its long. It takes 5 minutes just to read it. These are all executives from Yahoo who have list. I mean really. What do you say now? Huh? Huh?

Was Arrington right or what? I mean really. Look at the size of this list. It looks like the frigging Titanic. This list could power China for a year. This is the mother of all lists. I’ve never seen a list like this. How what do you say? Huh? Huh?

So after all, Arrington is a genius. Right up there with Icahn. I mean really, this list is like a death warrant. It make Yang look like, what, a dummy? Letting all these C-executives go. I mean, who does he think he is anyway? At least Ellison fired people like Conway and Siebel as soon as he acquired the companies. What’s wrong with Yang? Keeping these CEO types on so long. Is Arrington just like the best reporter on earth or what. He should get the Nobel Prize for investigative reporting. I mean, just look at the length of this list. What can you critics of Arrington say now? Huh? Huh?

I mean he’s got this frigging list and everthing. Guy’s a genius, that Arrington dude. My hero.

Are there stated reasons for the departure, or like others said, is this just normal turnover? What are the stats available for years prior to 2007

Well, How many execs join Yahoo! since Jan 2007?
I guess they have as many as execs as they have Vice President in investment banks? correct me if I am wrong.

I like to use Yahoo! Mail and I think they have good products and strong hold in the market. Don’t understand why you guys get so excited.

Nice list Mike. Now we know what Brad Garlinghouse has been doing since he left Yahoo.

The list is also missing Robert Nashak, who was formerly GM, Yahoo! Games, who’s now a VP, Casual Games Studio @ EA…

Also, FWIW Sean Atkins (listed above) has now left HBO for whatever his next gig will be, up in NorCal.

Now if they would all just pack up and go back to where they came from.

get over it already… the media jackals have been gnawing all over Yahoo! for the past couple years claiming they needed change and needed to get themselves in shape again. There were calls high and low to hold the bloated executive ranks accountable for their mis-steps and failures. There ARE 500 million unique users per month being served- and apparently they are served by the people really doing the work. As in… the users and advertisers aren’t decreasing, and they are still finding what they are looking for.

Quit yer bitchin’ and flip flopping. Your list above is some quantifiable data that change is happening. Clearly they all left and most yahoo’s probably don’t know who 90% of them even are. so over 100 “execs” left in a year’s time and nobody noticed… it appears perhaps this is precisely what yahoo needs more of.

if yahoo has not performed to expectations- then it starts at the top and the leaders who failed to achieve performance expectations should be encouraged to perform like that elsewhere.

So make up your mind and quit being a stereotypical “if it bleeds, it leads, and better make it look like someone is bleeding” media empty head.

I agree with the following comment made by “silicon valley dropout”:

michael does jerry owe you money or something?

enough yahoo threads !

As of a year ago there were 230 VP’s and higher at yahoo, 110 down and 120 to go. Seriously, the management structure at yahoo sucked and needed to be cleared out.

Why don’t you put this into a shared and openly editable Google Spreadsheet or something?

I noticed some banner ads for Jobs at Yahoo today and they seemed a poignant reminder of the cascade of quitting people. I think if Yahoo is smart about all this they’ll see it as an opportunity to get back on track with new, enthusiastic folks. Yahoo remains, after all, a giant internet player second only to Google in internet importance. Getting your ass in gear when you are number two is a lot easier than when you are …. anybody else.

When some one calls their title

Head of XXX, (the o so famous “head of monetization”)

at yahoo or google. . .

its basically means they are a senior manager and have yet to make director but want to have a cool title to put on their resume . . .

The thing that should piss people off and drive them away if anything is that Mike doesn’t truly care about anything. He’s only doing this for hits.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/25/twitter-2/

Case in point.

He thinks he can manipulate people this way because he probably also thinks that his readers are simple minded fools weaned on reactionary television.

The best way Yahoo can resolve this is to start their own Tech blog and to move IT to the top of Technorati. If they do that, they should make it respectful, fair and honest. Except for reports dealing with Microsoft.

@34 - Chris, you shoulda sold your YHOO stock a while ago buddy.

If Yahoo had a GENUINE product that people wanted, they wouldn’t FLINCH at 10 bad TechCrunch posts.

Michael: This is a one-sided story. Every company has executives leaving and joining. Also, almost all of them went for comparatively senior positions. Thats a good career track.

Would you like to count how many of your bloggers have left TC in the last 2 years?

Talk about your “dead enders” these yahoo defenders are holding on to hard

@35, I have never traded stock in my life. That’s pretty hard to do having started 2 private corps. I don’t plan to either. No more than I plan to gamble in Las Vegas.

couple things… first this is stupid. out of that list there are maybe 10 or 15 people that actually did anything of value or mattered. 20 tops. some of the people listed were laid off. so does that count?

frankly michael, TC is losing it’s impact because of “stories” or posts like this. I’ve heard this from others too. you guys are posting too much, so each post becomes less important. and less thoughtful. it’s a catch 22. maybe you need to clean house a bit too.

i used to love reading techcrunch. now that i can’t tell it apart from valleywag, i’m not so sure anymore.

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C’mon guys, Yahoo is not a start-up, it’s a HUGE company. Execs and employees come and go all the time. Some are pushed out, some leave because they are too good for the mediocrity present in all big organizations.

I’m a former Yahoo employee. It’s obvious that Yahoo that has done poorly for the past few years. Its also clear that executives are leaving. When things aren’t going well, people move on. Certainly, Yahoo has made mistakes and is paying for it.

TechCrunch, what is your point in this article? Do you enjoy bashing Yahoo? Do you rejoice that the company is facing difficult times? Do enjoy rubbing it in, that people have left?

This article seems like it’s trying to dig up someone’s bad grades since elementary school and reporting them to the public. I suppose there’s nothing illegal about that. But it certainly doesn’t show much class. One could say that TechCrunch is just reporting facts. But come on! You’re just rubbing it in.

TechCrunch has good content most of the time, but this is a low blow.

I am deleting TC from my subscription, enough of this arrogant stupid shit articles.

I am feelin like crying.

I love Yahoo, it is a great company and has his place under the Sun.

It has a different business Model from Google.

What the *uck should Google be the baseline.

Search is a just one business of Yahoo..

Yahoo sure needs some soul searching…

114 is a huge loss…..Yahoo needs a redesign or a new way to bust into the new age and become a beast…..

It’s so sad that Yahoo has to lose these people..

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Maybe someone at valleywag should post a list of people that have left techcrunch over the last two years. Sure TC is doing great right now, but maybe listing why they left will show what weaknesses TC has. Working non stop and getting strung out over listing redundant new startups, in a residence, with no AC. Sounds like a good time.

Yahoo had a meeting about 10 months ago to propose a shift in strategy and to discuss the current culture. Every VP and up in the company was invited to the meeting. The invitation list was 315 people. 315 for a 13 thousand person compnay is not exactly banker titles.

I did not look carefully at the list to see how many VP and ups are on it, but it looks like more than 25% of the tops leadership has left.

I am not a journalist, but I think that might be worth reporting.

Reporting on it isnt the issue really. It’s more the “agenda”.

“We’ll continue to keep this updated, including on the original post, so just bookmark it if you want to refer back to current information.”

The last week has been wrought with these “breaking news” posts. Seemingly, employee 245, 246, and 247 are leaving. If yahoo is going bankrupt and a chunk of the internet were to collapse then it would be worth the sense of panic that this blog is creating about it. But that isnt going to happen. Worst comes to worse the company loses so much value until it becomes affordable enough to be acquired either through hostile takeover or through another negotiation. AOL has been dying since the early 2000’s and its somehow still alive. Yahoo isnt going anywhere in the next year or two.

A few key people missing:

For example, Yahoo Personals has gone through several GMs in the last 12 months — they’re on their third now, having gone through Anna Zornosa and Egon Smola in the last 8 months.

Yahoo!