On Leaving Yahoo…

Yes, it’s true. I’ve left Yahoo. … I came to Yahoo out of a start-up that I helped found, and it was my first “real job.” I literally expected to stay there one year. I thought it would be a good life experience to see firsthand how a successful, multibillion-dollar corporation operated. But I never expected to build a career there… to retire from Yahoo… or frankly to stay for a multiyear stint. But this “park there for a year and learn” strategy was out the window in a day. There was such an excitement at Yahoo, and I was taken aback by the level of passion and talent there. This was no place to “park”. And not aspiring to climb the corporate ladder there made it easy for me to be cavalier, call s— on stuff I thought was broken, and generally do what I thought was right.

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