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Comments on: Biting the hand that feeds you: Cuban vs. Yahoo

Yahoo elevated Mark Cuban into the ranks of the super-rich. Now he's part of the slate Carl Icahn wants to put on Yahoo's board of directors.

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by AppleSuxLeo May 15, 2008 1:29 PM PDT
He`s not Cuban folks...He`s Jewish !
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by bobr May 17, 2008 12:53 PM PDT
FYI, For many years Jews were not allowed by the antisemitic governments of the world. When they came to the US they were often given last names that were taken from their places of origin.
by streamOG May 15, 2008 4:21 PM PDT
Mark sold Yahoo a dying business that they lost $100M on and later shut down. Total loss.

Hard to believe they would reward him for this but then again he's worth a lot more money now than he was worth even then.

And now that Yahoo sealed their fate by bailing on Microsoft, I would imagine he's brash enough to get them some press...enough to maybe sell for $20 a share.

C. Levy
clevy@buydrm.com
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by JCPayne May 15, 2008 4:48 PM PDT
Yahoo had to sell Broadcast.com to Real Player... Why would you want this guy back???? What good judgement will he bring to Yahoo (this time) ???
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by benjwah May 15, 2008 6:35 PM PDT
He sold them a 5 billion dollar waste of money, so he's already proven himself the smarter one. No one knows Yahoo's mismanagement better than Mark Cuban, for all I know he named his biggest yacht "Jerry Yang is a *******".
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by bobr May 17, 2008 1:10 PM PDT
I pleases me to see Tim Koogle Get some of the credit he deserves. I had the pleasure of working closely with Tim about 18 years ago at Motorola and he possesses one of the very finest visionary minds that I have encountered in my 45 year career. Should add that during his tenure at Yahoo it became the nexus of the Internet for me and most of the people I know. Since he left it has become just another portal.
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