Lemme give you a little advice

Posted May 28th, 2008 at 1:54 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

 5 Comments / Filed in: Conferences/Events, Video

What do you do if you’re the CEO and president of a company that’s become the preoccupation of the business section and you’re about to go on stage in front of hundreds of tech moguls, investors, and journalists at “D: All Things Digital” for a chat with the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg? You cue the video!

Here’s a short video prelude we pulled together for Jerry Yang and Sue Decker to help pull the elephant squarely into the middle of the room this afternoon at the 6th annual D conference in Carlsbad, Calif. It’s a parody of the vast quantities of advice that both execs have been receiving about Yahoo! in recent months. And we got a little help from our friends — Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz (our first investor), PBS’ Charlie Rose, Sony’s Howard Stringer, Intel’s Paul Otellini, Dell’s Michael Dell, Cisco’s John Chambers, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg.

For Yodel Anecdotal readers, we’re posting a special version with an exclusive Buffett outtake at the end. It’s clear why Warren was invited to cameo on “All My Children.”

Yahoo! will be filing a definitive proxy statement and accompanying WHITE proxy card with the SEC in connection with the solicitation of proxies for its 2008 annual meeting of stockholders. Stockholders are strongly advised to read Yahoo!’s 2008 definitive proxy statement when it becomes available because it will contain important information. Stockholders will be able to obtain copies of Yahoo!’s 2008 definitive proxy statement and other documents filed by Yahoo! with the SEC in connection with its 2008 annual meeting of stockholders at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov or at the Investor Relations section of Yahoo!’s website at yhoo.client.shareholder.com. Yahoo!, its directors, and certain of its officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in connection with Yahoo!’s 2008 annual meeting of stockholders. Information concerning Yahoo!’s directors and officers is available in its preliminary proxy statement filed with the SEC on May 22, 2008.

(Incidentally, this video is the dog that ate my homework and is the reason why you loyal readers found last week’s content a bit sparse. I’m a multi-hat operation.)

Photo by Asa Mathat/AllThingsD.com

Tagged: conferences, jerry yang, sue decker, Video

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marc | May 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

People pay $50k to have lunch with Buffet… that family behind him just won the lottery! :)

YDRIVE | May 28th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

Very interesting! And cute videos!! :-)

dj | May 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

awesome video! loved it. not only jerry can fend off the biggest bully in tech industry, he’s got a great sense of humor too! very impressive! way to go, jerry.

bob e | May 29th, 2008 at 10:16 am

I look forward to having Yahoo! part of the Microsoft family. I’m sure there will be place for Jerry too.

dj | June 1st, 2008 at 9:33 am

maybe i missed something, but, as i recall, ballmer took to his heels and now wants to be a ‘partner’ with jerry.