Comments on: Jerry Yang to step down as Yahoo CEO

By: Tyrone D.

Tyrone D. — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:27:04 +0000

No, thank you, Jerry!

By: cc2006

cc2006 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:19:21 +0000

without taking sides, IF all of us were in Jerry’s position of starting the company and growing it to what it is today, it would not be an easy to let go. Just like a parent to their children.
While some may be happy to take the $ and walk off, others are not. Steve Jobs wouldn’t have left apple if he had a choice. perhaps leaving for the wilderness (a few years) did Steve some good and came back to Apple with vengance.
$ is the root problem to this issue. Spirit of entrepreneur is the victim here. how many of us here can claim we did/can do what Jerry did?

By: JustMe

JustMe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:48:59 +0000

@Yahoosoft
I was wondering the same thing.. lol

By: Yahoosoft

Yahoosoft — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:04:24 +0000

Doesn’t his spell checker capitalize?

By: Queen4111

Queen4111 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:35:48 +0000

Too little, too late.

By: j.p michaels

j.p michaels — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:01:26 +0000

The capitain is leaving the sinking ship.
Is Carl going to fix it?
I guess with the Share he still owns he could have amde a big pile of Dough at 33$/ Share to retire ver compfortable

By: MiniMe

MiniMe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:51:08 +0000

About 2 years too late.

I see we’ve got some moral police here (ThisGuy). Beware of being stoned to death in a name of “doing the right” thing.

By: ThisGuy

ThisGuy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:57:55 +0000

Whoever posted as “Jerry Yang” needs to be banned from this site. Jerry Yang might have F*cked up as CEO, but there is no need to mock asians by saying “rearry loved…”. Thats just straight up racist.

And to Roger A…..Im sure all Asians look alike to you because you are ignorant.

God….I thought there would be alot more educated and tolerant people on a site like this.

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:51:23 +0000

Sincere congratulations, Yahoo! This is definitely a step in the right direction; however, it will be too little, too late in the (very) long (uphill) run against Google. I do hope that Yahoo will still be around in a year or two. Any one have a crystal ball?

By: keymaker

keymaker — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:35:33 +0000

Here’s the problem, Jerry is just to nice, yahoo was never going to get anywhere that way, want a good example, look at microsoft, Bill had the brains to build the company but do you think he had the attitude to run it? hell no, that’s where ballmer came in and both took it to the top. Employee’s have a habit a confusing kindness with weakness and that’s how companies go bankrupt everyday, want another example, look at Apple, employees where left to do as they wish and almost killed the company, when steve jobs came back as CEO people where terrified of even getting on the elevator with him cause when elevator stop they might not even had a job anymore and look at Apple today.

By: jman

jman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:17:20 +0000

Leave Jerry alone, he’s a good guy and happens to be a close friend of mine.

By: Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:22:22 +0000

You guys are mean! I did great things for my company. I rearry loved that company.

By: Pythagoras

Pythagoras — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:41:32 +0000

“Close friends say he has watched Kung Fu Panda over 1000 times and knows Po’s lines by heart.”

By: Roger A

Roger A — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:11:29 +0000

Jerry is a bad used car salesman trying to sell his used .com biz that failed miserably for 3x more then its worth… HAHAHA!! Should have sold it when you had the chance..ASS!!

Oh well, looks like he will be going back to American Idol to sing “She bangs” William Hung style… dont they look related?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:36:50 +0000

He made a monumental mistake when he played hardball with Microsoft. Now the stockholders are paying for it. Good riddence!

By: andy

andy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:04:02 +0000

So they paid him $1 million to do what?
Why dont companies pay their execs like the military. If he fucks up, he loses his pay check and will be working overtime for free.

By: deemoots

deemoots — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:53:48 +0000

Bout time someone got rid of that…….
YAHOO!

By: mr. Hi-Definition

mr. Hi-Definition — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:42:37 +0000

I think Yahoo should have just let Microsoft buy them when they still had a chance. Cause they can’t hold a candle to Google.

By: GMoney_21

GMoney_21 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:29:15 +0000

That 47 Billion dollar Microsoft offer is looking MIGHTY good right now, wouldn’t you say Jerry?

By: chris in ny

chris in ny — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:25:43 +0000

BEST. YAHOO NEWS. EVER