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Yodel Anecdotal » Stepping down

Filed Under (Stop The Press, Tech Takes, Yahoo-niverse) by Ankur on 19 November, 2008

Yodel Anecdotal » Stepping down.

Jerry Yang has announced that he’ll be stepping down as the CEO of Yahoo! and going back to his role as…Chief Yahoo!. He sure did make Yahoo! more…purple. Moreover, a lot of cool stuff has been brought in by him on the technology front. It’s probably right for him to step down because what he does best is technology - which he has given to Yahoo! What Yahoo! sorely needs now is someone who can market all this brilliant stuff to the masses.

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5 Responses to “Yodel Anecdotal » Stepping down”

  1. Abhishek on 19 Nov 2008 at 22:14 #

    I think the Microsoft deal would have mostly been good for Y!

  2. Ankur on 20 Nov 2008 at 00:27 #

    @Abhishek: Nah. They’d probably just have spent months shifting from Unix to Windows servers and re-coding PHP to ASP.NET. That actually happened when Microsoft took over Hotmail.

  3. Abhishek on 20 Nov 2008 at 00:39 #

    Not without the support of the engineers who continue to work with Yahoo!

    You should know that most MS download servers are on Unix. I somehow think, the opposite will happen. Y! Mail is larger than Hotmail as of now, so it wouldn’t be logical for Microsoft to shift to .NET servers.

    I’m talking about a survival strategy. The downtime you faced today is just one of the many more to come.

  4. anuj on 21 Nov 2008 at 10:27 #

    They need *a* Steve Jobs

  5. Ankur on 21 Nov 2008 at 21:28 #

    @Anuj: They sure do need a guy like him…

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