Comments on: Yahoo's Jerry Yang runs into a wall

The Yahoo co-founder and CEO will walk through walls for Yahoo, but he isn't doing a great job of selling the vision inside or outside of the company.

[The_happy_switcher]

I guess Yang disproves the popular notion that Asians are curvebreakers. lol

[intel-i-gates]

Jerry Wang: CHARISMA AND LEADERSHIP OF A FROG. Oh yea, he's that good.

[lawyerguy]

The messenger isn't their problem. Their offering is their problem. A better frontman won't fix that.

[PacificGatePost]

Months ago Yang needed to change his board and seek more intelligent advice.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/05/yahoos-board-and-its-shareholders.html

Shareholders should have been more vocal. Now it's too late. Their board did not serve them well.


Today, shareholders continue to be abused. Good luck

[fdunn3]

Yahoo will be history by 2010.

[close5828]

I sure wish this guy would grow a pair and FIX the company, rather than lamenting about Microsoft buying Yahoo. Seriously--either put your sack on the table or get out of the way and hire someone who can-do.

Whatever Semel was, I think Yang is worse...

[AppleSuxLeo]

Yang has lost his Yin ! Fire sale , hurry !

[rollingstop]

The premise of this article is wrong. Jerry could be the greatest salesman in the world, the product still sucks. For example, why don't they put better spam filters in yahoo mail? Why haven't they updated yahoo contacts in 5 years? Why haven't they updated yahoo briefcase in ten years? What is up with yahoo travel? Why do they change their home page, clutter it up more and more, every year. Yahoo Stores? Haha Amazon killed them. Yahoo Auctions? What happened. Yahoo B2B? The list oges on and one. When "my yahoo" came out, it was the coolest thing ever. Now, other than Yahoo Finance, there are beaten in every one of their products.

At one point, Yahoo was a technology leader. Then they brought in Terry Semel, a Hollywood guy to run the company. Tried to become a "media company". Whatever that means. That was when they lost their way.

Yahoo is a website, a technology company, and no longer a very good one. The best sales pitch in the world isn't going to fix their website.

[RTFM]

Of all the web mail I've used, Yahoo mail is the most cluttered with ads. There are sooooo many ads embedded everywhere that it is hard to even read my email. They need to get their focus back and be lean and mean.