7 posts and columns on exodus

Viral Video: Why Is This Web Video Different From All Others?

in News on April 7, 2011 at 12:05 am PT

This is a marvelous video, titled “Google Exodus,” about what the original Passover would be like if it took place in the digital age. Let my people geek?

No Massive Reorg at Yahoo, But More Exec Departures (Plus the Schneider Goodbye Letter)

in News on October 4, 2010 at 1:05 am PT

Sorry, folks, but–despite reports–Yahoo will not be unveiling another new organizational structure this week. In actuality, the beleaguered Internet giant is just cleaning up from last week’s shake-up–in which it announced that a chunk of its top media and sales leadership was leaving–as well as settling in new hires made in recent months by its relatively new product head, Blake Irving. In fact, those changes in Irving’s unit have resulted in the departure of two more execs. That would be former SVP of Media Products and Solutions Jeff Kinder and SVP for Cloud Computing Shelton Shugar, who are on their way out.

Here Comes the Yahoo Spin Cycle–So Try BoomTown's Soap-Free Guide to What's Actually Happening

in News on September 30, 2010 at 12:53 am PT

Here’s how Yahoo’s top brass and board–with the help of its newly re-engaged crisis-management PR firm, Abernathy MacGregor–are already trying to spin the latest executive turmoil to hit the company: Trashing those on the way out, to take focus off those remaining who have been just as responsible for driving the Internet icon, and claiming that this is all part of yet another well-planned reorganization at Yahoo. Don’t believe most of it for a second. Some of it is corporate politics as usual, some of it rejiggering of events, some just not true at all.

Yahoo CEO Trash-Talks Web Rivals–But That Won't Stop the Company's Troubling Brain Drain

in News on April 30, 2010 at 5:31 am PT

Say what you will about the status of her effort to turn the company around, but Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz certainly has gumption by the truckload. Which perhaps is not always such a good thing. Because although adept at throwing verbals stinkbombs at rivals, it still doesn’t make Yahoo’s talent exodus any less troubling.

Hello Goodbye: What Does Talent Exodus From Internet Companies Like Yahoo Actually Mean?

in News on March 24, 2010 at 5:13 am PT

On March 30, a core group of Yahoo’s Buzz Marketing team, which focuses on all kinds of nontraditional marketing efforts, is leaving the company to set up a new firm. But what does the departure actually mean for Yahoo? Does it represent a worrisome and seemingly unending hemorrhage of talent? Or is it simply an example of ever-shifting and very normal talent movements within a company? Or what?

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The Case for the Fat Start-Up

in News on March 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT

Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-technology companies. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, held a mandatory all-CEO meeting in fall 2008 during which it advised them to “Cut spending. Cut fat. Preserve capital.”