Yahoo CEO Speaks Up about Shake Up

cvos writes "Yahoo has been under fire recently. The common wisdom is that they are losing marketshare to Google, and now MSN. Many executives have departed in the last few weeks, and Yahoo has received a lot of unfavorable press. Their CEO let out a (unintentional) personal and heated response to media critics." From the article: "At the next all-hands. Just as a reminder. I'm sorry I didn't do it today. I'm gonna put up there all of the press reports on how Yahoo! was going out of business 5 years ago. And of how we were gonna be swallowed up by AOL, owned by Time-Warner, and by Microsoft, and by everybody else. And Yahoo! looked like it had a dim future. Well those headlines, of course, were used to wrap a lot of fish in a lot of people's houses, as the expression goes. And they were all full of [expletive deleted], and they had no idea what we had planned for them. And they do not now as well!"

Comments

We should actually insert expletives

[Timesprout]

I've heard our strategy described as spreading [shit] across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of [shit] spread across everything we do and thus we [shit] on nothing in particular. I hate [shit]. We all should.

Some of the stuff emanating from Yahoo recently (Peanut butter memo) actually makes more sense with expletives inserted.