3 posts and columns on Farzad Nazem

For Yahoo, It Seems, It's Always Groundhog Day

in News on January 30, 2008 at 2:52 am PT

Oh dear. Even more waiting for Yahoo to turn itself around? Until 2009? Really? Another 100 days, and another, and another and then more than half of another? This is starting to feel very, very familiar. Too familiar. Well, it did take seven months to replace Farzad Nazem as CTO at a–um, well–technology-dependent company, so [...]

Next Yahoo Executive Shoe–of Many–to Fall?

in News on June 19, 2007 at 12:53 am PT

While it’s corporate sport to focus on the ins and outs of the departure of Terry Semel–was he pushed or did he motor out of Yahoo on his own or, the truth, a little of both?–it’s probably a better idea to look at what will come in the days ahead for Yahoo’s ranks. Sources tell [...]

Yahoo's Tech Mission Impossible

in News on June 4, 2007 at 3:13 am PT

Who, who, who has the guts to take over running tech at Yahoo, in the wake of the sudden departure last week of CTO Farzad Nazem? (“Your job, should you choose to accept it, Mr. Phelps, is to beat the Goog Borg.”) Nazem said in a post on a Yahoo blog that he had decided [...]