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z2006-11-19- Yahoo Garlinghouse Shakeup Memo
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Bill Seitz is a Product Manager/CTO with a track-record of bringing a business perspective to building agile product-development teams for start-ups, and is seeking a senior role in an entrepreneurial organization building disruptive Internet-driven products.
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Oct 20, 2008 12:13 am |
An internal YaHoo memo by [Brad Garlinghouse] was leaked to the Wall St Journal. This is Yahoo's dirty laundry spread all over the world for everyone to see, and it voices a frustration that suggests CEO Terry Semel's chief lieutenants are restless and frustrated... "I've heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular. I hate peanut butter. We all should." BigCo messiness.
One recommendation some people have is to combine the acquired AList brands like FlickR into the higher-traffic "mainstream" products like [Yahoo Photos]. Doc Searls would not like that.
Dec05 update: ReOrg announced - will it matter?
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog