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YouSendIt CEO: Beware the Silicon Valley bubble

PARIS -- Silicon Valley is famed for its role in nurturing startups, but companies there often suffer problems from not looking beyond the insular region to the rest of the world.

So warned Brad Garlinghouse, chief executive of YouSendIt -- one of those companies in Silicon Valley "echo chamber" -- speaking here at the LeWeb conference.

"The hype factor that has impacted Silicon Valley is an unhealthy thing," Garlinghouse said. "Companies focus more on the hype than building a great experience."

Garlinghouse is a high-profile voice in the echo chamber. Perhaps his greatest claim … Read more

Brad Garlinghouse updates Yahoo 'Peanut Butter Manifesto'

NEW YORK--In 2006, Brad Garlinghouse became known for his "Peanut Butter Manifesto," a highly critical analysis of Yahoo's management and business strategy. He wrote:

"We want to do everything and be everything--to everyone. We've known this for years, talk about it incessantly, but do nothing to fundamentally address it. We are scared to be left out. We are reactive instead of charting an unwavering course. We are separated into silos that far too frequently don't talk to each other. And when we do talk, it isn't to collaborate on a clearly focused strategy, … Read more

Ex-AOL honcho Brad Garlinghouse to run YouSendIt

There are a lot of things you can be famous for in Silicon Valley, but Brad Garlinghouse will probably always be known for having sent the legendary "Peanut Butter Manifesto," a 2006 document that excoriated his team at Yahoo for their lackadaisical attitudes, and which will always be mentioned as "Jerry McGuire-esque."

More recently, Garlinghouse has been president of commerce and applications at AOL. And today, according to Fortune, YouSendIt, a player in the cloud storage business, announced that Garlinghouse is coming aboard as CEO.

"I didn't want to be the salmon swimming upstream, … Read more

Garlinghouse to leave AOL, reports say

Brad Garlinghouse, AOL's president of commerce and applications and the head of its Silicon Valley operations, is leaving the troubled company, according to published reports.

Garlinghouse has become frustrated that the company is not taking a more aggressive strategy and felt the company was being relegated to just an arm of the Huffington Post, the publishing empire that AOL purchased earlier this year, sources tell the Business Insider. GigaOm also reported Garlinghouse's departure.

AOL did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Garlinghouse could not be reached, but a tweet from last week appears to highlight that … Read more

AOL exec: 'We have a big f-ing problem!'

PHILADELPHIA--Right off the bat: The headline of this post is easily taken out of context. Be it known that it was uttered not in a context of panic, but in a sort of Silicon Valley disruptor-maverick bravado, by former Yahoo executive and current AOL mobile and Internet chief Brad Garlinghouse. His point: At AOL, they know they're screwed up; at Yahoo, they wouldn't acknowledge it.

"AOL, we have a big f-ing problem," Garlinghouse said. "There's no confusion about that."

He was presenting a talk at the Supernova conference about whether tech companies could … Read more

AOL taps Garlinghouse for key roles

AOL announced Tuesday that it has appointed former Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, famed for his "Peanut Butter Manifesto" at that company, as the new president of its Internet and Mobile Communications segment.

Garlinghouse also will run AOL's Silicon Valley operations from its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters and serve as the West Coast lead for AOL Ventures, the company's venture capital arm. He will report directly to AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong, who was named to those posts in April.

Garlinghouse's most recent position was as an in-house senior adviser for Silver Lake Partners.

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