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He Predicted Jerry Yang & Yahoo's Collapse in 2001

• ajross 18y ago
  Let me get this straight: in the middle of the dotcom collapse, someone went out on a limb and predicted that a dotcom titan would fall? Wow, now there is a radical, out-of-the-box thinker. We need more authors like this guy.
  • realworld 18y ago
    Actually - in 2001 he is saying yang was unfit to be ceo of a then-smaller yahoo... So they pushed him aside for other executives. Now yang is in charge and yahoo is struggling - perhaps there is some lesson there? Some irony? Yes to both.
    • gojomo 18y ago
      I don't see anything in that book quote suggesting Filo or Yang were "unfit" for leadership -- just that "[t]hey never quite ran the company" because other executives were brought in from the beginning. The excerpt is criticizing the exaggerated myth of technical-founder-as-manager. It's not criticizing Yang specifically in the slightest, nor does it make any predictions about the future, a Yahoo "collapse", or what would happen if its founders took over. This submission has a misleading, attention-stealing headline.
  • realworld 18y ago
    Actually - in 2001 he is saying yang was unfit to be ceo of a then-smaller yahoo... So they pushed him aside for other executives. Now yang is in charge and yahoo is struggling - perhaps there is some lesson there? Some irony? Yes to both.