Comments on: Jerry Yang memo to staff about stepping down

Here is the full text of the note Jerry Yang sent to employees about stepping down as CEO as soon as a replacement is found.

[close5828]

After he said "....the best thing for Microsoft to do is buy Yahoo", this guy had to go.

[cchenoweth6]

I adore the way this guy uses all lowercase in his letters. I'm surprised he made it out of the second grade.

[Galaxy5]

I don't think his use of lowercase letters goes to his intelligence, but unfortunately, it speaks volumes about his poor professionalism.

[RoderickStJohn]

Mssrs Bostock:and Yang:

May I suggest John Donahoe.

Please.

Pretty please?

Oh god please?

[stuxstu]

Good, now Microsoft can buy Yahoo. Yang screwed the investors who own the company. How many had to loose their jobs, how many good intelligent managers left over the last two years, and how many users went to Google before Jerry realized he sucks as CEO.

I hope Microsoft buy Yahoo and AOL to balance out the internet search and Ad services. Microsoft is the only major tech company that can balance or really remove Google's monopoly.

Competition breeds excellence and Yahoo combined with Microsoft could compete with Google.

[JoeF2]

You seem to forget that he is one othe investors who own the company.
Also, it is "lose", not "loose". English is a hard language, I know...
And finally, if "competition breeds excellence," Yahoo should have been quite excellent...

[svetylko]

Oh come on, JoeF2, it's so easy to discredit someone's argument by picking on typos and spelling errors. But I for one agree wholeheartedly with stuxstu. I mean, read that memo and listen to all the posturing -- don't you ever wish that just for once one of these guys would tell the truth? "Dear Stakeholders, I'm stepping down because I robbed you all of a good deal because I was still living my upstart Silicon Valley glory days and fighting the powers that be, all the while forgetting that I'm not a kid anymore, and this company I started has shareholders who might have considered the sale of this asset a good deal." Because it was a good deal. And he blew it. It just gets so old - I mean, who does he think he's kidding? Heck, I've spent most of my career creating corporate culture by pretending the truth is something other than it is, and even I'm sick of it now. Will anyone ever just tell it like it is?

[Alex Alexzander]

Buying yahoo is a complete waste of money. Just let them die.

Alex

[benjwah]

He tanks the stock and he can't even spare the time to utilise basic grammar.

[wango2007]

Ya, the "right ceo to take ownership over the next wave of mission-critical decisions" will be Steve Ballmer.... after Microsoft buys Yahoo at $5/share.