Yang On Yahoo's Mess

On the heels of the Yahoo deal that fell apart V 2, comeback CEO Jerry Yang was skewered by the able hands of Web 2.0 Summit host John Battelle earlier today. Yang looked weary, to say the least; and who wouldn't, after seeing hundreds of millions of potential revenue flushed away thanks to Google's reluctance to battle the DOJ. Worse, Yang's strategy for Yahoo looked pretty close to a train wreck; or maybe warmed-over leftovers of a Web that's passed his company by.

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[samadhist]

Not sure how I feel about the interviewer on this one. Yang is a punching bag for Yahoo, so it's fair game. But I think at many points in the interview John basically asks Yang to outrightly betray the employees at Yahoo. The result is that John looks like he is not honestly interviewing Yang, but instead just fishing for garbage.

[greenfeld5]

JERRY MICROSOFT DIDNT WENT TO BUY YAHOO . MICROSOFT ONLY WENT TO

SEE WHAT YAHOO ITS ALL ABOUT , STRUCTURE INFORMATION .THAT THE CAN CHANGE AS AND COMPETE . WITH GOOGLE .YOU KIDDING YOURSELF ,

THIS BILL GATE .

[IdiotProductionzz]

@samadhist well said my friend, well said

[filleman17]

Yanghoo

[y2yang]

It's a normal environment, so we talk like normal people.

[lixvm]

good stuff

[portalplayer]

hey,

your standard quality video doesn't work. I click on it, and it says it's not available. hope u can fix that

[macbookboy2]

1st