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> I’d buy the NYT (for a mere $1.5bn!) and recruit John Gruber to be Editor in Chief of the “Yahoo! News” division. Are you kidding? I get Gruber is a popular blogger in some circles, but in what way does he have the kind of insight, ability, or experience needed to run the new york times and yahoo news?
Looks like this guy is looking for a job at Yahoo and decided to augment his resume with this in hopes of impressing someone over there. Doesn't look like he's even remotely qualified to be CEO of a startup, let alone a $20B publicly traded corporation. Never mind the 'strategy' he outlines, which sounds like something out of a Starbucks brainstorming session.
Looks like this guy is looking for a job at Yahoo and decided to augment his resume with this in hopes of impressing someone over there. Doesn't look like he's even remotely qualified to be CEO of a startup, let alone a $20B publicly traded corporation. Never mind the 'strategy' he outlines, which sounds like something out of a Starbucks brainstorming session.
I know Joe (well, knew, we haven't talked in a few years), but he's a great hustler (in the best sense of the word). Frankly, Yahoo needs someone who doesn't have experience running a $20B company. All the CEOs since Yang have run the company in to the ground. Key among Yahoo's bad decisions: let's abandon search and become a 'media' company (based on 30 year old concepts of 'media' from a 'media' insider, all of whi…
> I’d buy the NYT (for a mere $1.5bn!) and recruit John Gruber to be Editor in Chief of the “Yahoo! News” division. Are you kidding? I get Gruber is a popular blogger in some circles, but in what way does he have the kind of insight, ability, or experience needed to run the new york times and yahoo news?
Unfortunately, this isn't how finance works, so I can't hire you as CEO. Yahoo has $1.5Bn in cash. Companies usually get bought for cash and stock that the company owns, or they can issue more stock if it's a merger that gets broad approval. YHOO doesn't have $20Bn to buy companies with, and if they did, they still couldn't make the investments you're talking about. Twitter alone is worth $8.5Bn on the secondary mark…
Oh, this web webdeveloer can be the CEO? And his plan is to buy a bunch of companies that make pretty things and give their founders free reign over their entire section of Yahoo! so that Yahoo! would just become a huge collection of brightly colored products with no real strategy? Well, I'm sold.
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I know Joe (well, knew, we haven't talked in a few years), but he's a great hustler (in the best sense of the word). Frankly, Yahoo needs someone who doesn't have experience running a $20B company. All the CEOs since Yang have run the company in to the ground. Key among Yahoo's bad decisions: let's abandon search and become a 'media' company (based on 30 year old concepts of 'media' from a 'media' insider, all of whi…
Yea, I was thinking about considering startup executives in big company executive recruiting for a while new.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know Joe (well, knew, we haven't talked in a few years), but he's a great hustler (in the best sense of the word). Frankly, Yahoo needs someone who doesn't have experience running a $20B company. All the CEOs since Yang have run the company in to the ground. Key among Yahoo's bad decisions: let's abandon search and become a 'media' company (based on 30 year old concepts of 'media' from a 'media' insider, all of whi…
Yea, I was thinking about considering startup executives in big company executive recruiting for a while new.