Comments on: More Yahoo Senior Exec Defections: Steve Boom and Todd Teresi

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links for 2008-08-28 « 個人的な雑記 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:07:52 +0000

[...] More Yahoo Senior Exec Defections: Steve Boom and Todd Teresi (tags: Yahoo!) [...]

By: Unept

Unept — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:39:22 +0000

If you close one eye, and blur your focus just a teeny bit, they look like Page and Brin.

By: Fox

Fox — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:33:12 +0000

I still have yet to see how any of this matters at all – unless you are a stock investor with some serious scratch in the game – 1000+ shares.

People leave companies like this all of the time. This string reads like something I saw on TMZ and which I say – who cares what those famous people do anyway? It is not going to have any impact on my success or failure in life.

Is there not anything else productive to talk about?

By: Yahoo! Falling Apart From Within- More Executives Jump The Sinking Ship! « Rajeev’s Weblog

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:18:25 +0000

[...] leaving the company is off the charts, by all standards. Now, as per the news details provided by Tech Crunch, two more senior vice presidents (SVPs) have quit Yahoo! and left for greener [...]

By: Fuego

Fuego — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:11:02 +0000

I worked with Todd Teresi while I was at yahoo, and his departure is definitely not “housecleaning.” He was one of the few leaders who actually had great ideas, spoke his mind and didn’t suck up to the C-suite. On the other hand, that Jill Nash flack was widely regarded as an incompetent hand-me-down from the Gap who didn’t have a clue about Yahoo’s core business model. If yahoo intends to clean house, she should be at the top of the list.

By: Darin Divinia

Darin Divinia — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:32:55 +0000

It is news worthy when there is a serious void of talent and leadership. Lots of good people leaving is not a good thing. One would think Y! could make it worth their while to stay but maybe it is time for new blood.

By: Darin Divinia

Darin Divinia — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:31:02 +0000

Todd and Steve are good guys and they brought a lot of value over the years.

Yahoo! might not be able to keep them regardless of the fight per se. . Sometimes people are just ready to split.

By: C

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:55:44 +0000

Good Luck!

By: gidget

gidget — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:28:05 +0000

At the end of the day, Teresi’s departure doesn’t really come as a shock. Yahoo made some pretty major acquisitions in the past several years, and what they need to do is to show the street that they were smart. Teresi wasn’t well liked by many, and it was quickly decided earlier this year, that not he, but Walrath from the Blue Lithium acquisition would take the reigns of the “network.”

Walrath is known as a man who gets it done, and who can command an audience, and WANTS to be there helping to make Yahoo better. So, good luck at Quantcast. . . and keep your eyes peeled for Mike to make his rath known.

By: Rory B. Bellows

Rory B. Bellows — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:13:19 +0000

Really??

I would have kept Zawodny and a few others.

Conversely, you could argue Yahoo is keeping a lot of the legacy execs who are great at politicking rather than turning a ship around. The latter is the board’s job but they’ve proven worthless over the last couple years.

Net/net, Yahoo’s legacy will be measured by MSFT’s offer. If they can get their value beyond $45B in the next couple years they’re winners. If not they’ll go down as the biggest buffoons in the valley who’s self-aggrandizement lead to their demise.

Unfortunately, it’s the everyday folks who take the grunt of the punishment as the execs continue to prosper.

By: Yahoo still shedding off executives | Startup Meme

Yahoo still shedding off executives | Startup Meme — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:21:56 +0000

[...] TechCrunch broke the ice along with Todd Teresi, the SVP of Network Business and who is currently the Chief Revenue Officer at Quantcast. Now is this some sort of trimming and thrashing taking place within Yahoo or is it that executives who have spent years don’t see much for themselves at Yahoo? It would be speculating too much unless some sort of comments makes way out of the management at Yahoo or those who walk out Yahoo’s doors. To me it appears that these highly experienced members don’t much given the volatile relation between investors and the board members. Yahoo, you need to do something before the long Autumn dries you up completely. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: lordy

lordy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:12:11 +0000

If by “outstanding homepage” you mean over-crowded, ad-ridden, mess of crap that stands as the single best example of cheese on the web, then yes.

From the people I know, they use yahoo, cause that’s what they are used to using. Hell, most of them just figured out facebook in the last 3 months.

Yahoo go bye-byes

By: noam

noam — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:59:09 +0000

Yahoo would fight for those that are truly important. The recent departures will not have a long lasting negative impact on Yahoo’s value. Investors may be afraid of a supposed “exhodus”, but the truth is that Yahoo is still a very capable company with a business that is based on its outsanding homepage that attracts millions of uniques each day. Those “tallented” execs were, in part, the reason for Yahoo’s inability to capitalize on its traffic.
That being said, I can also say that it sure seems like the teams at Yahoo are working like crazy in order to find the way to capitalize. There’s hardly been a week that went by without them announcing a new product or an upgrade. I think it’s only a matter of time before we start seeing their stock price rise. It’ll take as long as it’ll take investors to figure out that Yahoo is still a monster of a company.

By: Bleeding Purple

Bleeding Purple — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:52:35 +0000

Mike, when are you gonna give your boy Brad Garlinghouse a sendoff? His last day is Friday…thank god

By: saran

saran — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:30:33 +0000

Also noteworthy is that Boom was Jerry’s roommate back in college

By: valleymonger

valleymonger — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:13:31 +0000

oh, yes, and you can add another name to the list: sabrina ellis, vp of messenger, is rumored to be leaving (thankfully)

By: valleymonger

valleymonger — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:07:30 +0000

to the people saying that this will make the yahoo org more lean: who told you that these people are not going to be replaced by other VPs???? most probably, they will, and in the case of steve boom, certainly by someone less prepared. Steve rocks.

By: Fox

Fox — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:34:39 +0000

Who cares what people leave yahoo. If they want to go, let em. If they want to stay, stay. I dont see why it is news worthy.

By: ArabCrunch

ArabCrunch — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:13:59 +0000

I love Yahoo! i feel sorry for them

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By: J5

J5 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:42:08 +0000

nope, noe execs but engineers.

Sanitation engineers. Seriously.

By: Rory B. Bellows

Rory B. Bellows — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:04:53 +0000

Correct, the market dictates value. The value is reflected in the stock price. Right now $45B is looking like mighty fine given the fact that the company is only worth around $30B today. The $60B offered to Semel on the downlow looks even better.

Time will tell. Let’s see if they can get this thing over $50B come Jan 1, 2010.

By: Tuyen Vo

Tuyen Vo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:03:16 +0000

For public companies, yes.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:54:10 +0000

how many execs do you need

it seem like everyone working at yahoo gets execs title

i bet janitors are execs too