Comments on: Stepping down

By: medyum

medyum — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:10:35 +0000

Mr. Yang, Good luck. But please make sure yahoo never…ever…never…goes into Microsoft’s hand. Just save the world loosing something really amazing thing on web. cheers!

By: kapadokya

kapadokya — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:12:36 +0000

I am so happy, i feel like i won the lottery. Even after you lost me 10 grand in stock when you declined the Microsoft offer, and caused the stock to plummet 2/3 the value, you will still go down in history as the most resilient CEO in web 2.0 history..

By: araç sorgulama

araç sorgulama — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:14:56 +0000

As an early XML evangelist, I would like to acknowledge Yahoo as an innovator in the adaption of XML. While open APIs and Cloud computing may drive the future, XML has become the foundational meta-language of the semantic web.

I would love to see Yahoo and Firefox team up to develop an Xforms driven plaform that is device agnostic and allows anyone to program or develop custom apps easily for fun and profit. Perhaps that could be your next project.

By: Ankara Parke

Ankara Parke — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:59:59 +0000

much respect, yahoo was and is still a great company. you do alot for the net and more companies need to be like yours.

By: medyum

medyum — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:11:41 +0000

By: Road trip

Road trip — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:41:47 +0000

good job

By: tourist

tourist — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:23:52 +0000

best wishes good luck with that !

By: Cipek

Cipek — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:26:10 +0000

Good luck

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:32:55 +0000

Thank you for the great services and the great content that Yahoo provides! Yahoo is the best out there in my opinion.

Best wishes to your future.

Josh Houser
Owner of TheCommentDepot.com

By: Tekfirm

Tekfirm — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:46:37 +0000

Good luck ,

at least you know when you should stop .

Keep it up ;)

By: Tom Andries

Tom Andries — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:18:49 +0000

Jerry, you did a great job! Yahoo! is a profitable company an internet monument and you got loads of things moving at Yahoo!

The media as usual like extremes, beating their one-time heroes down… but they’ll love a huge comeback story when Yahoo! profits start growing again…

I think you did a GREAT job!

By: design

design — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:56:03 +0000

The new guy might bring the breath of fresh air Yahoo needs. Like most large companies they have a little trouble in making quick changes that most companies need today, especially on the Internet. AOL anyone?

By: John

John — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:56:28 +0000

To the incoming CEO…I’d say that instead of selling the company, why not fix/improve it, and make it better? Apple was in much worse shape than Yahoo less than ten years ago, and look what Steve Jobs was able to achieve!

By: ton

ton — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:26:21 +0000

give yahoo to MICROSOFT maybe they will do something about the damn bots
seem you dont care

By: Jay Pandey

Jay Pandey — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:08:50 +0000

Mr. Yang, Good luck. But please make sure yahoo never…ever…never…goes into Microsoft’s hand. Just save the world loosing something really amazing thing on web. cheers!

By: gag

gag — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:03:03 +0000

wow

from CEO back to being a brand ambassador for one of the biggest brands online.

as i have told before its being busy doing something you love is what that matters in life.

wishing you quality time mixed with fun in your personal life and loads of decisions making as ambassador in your professional life. Be busy n rock and roll, enjoy.

By: stef

stef — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:21:54 +0000

much respect, yahoo was and is still a great company. you do alot for the net and more companies need to be like yours.

By: Sammy Ashouri

Sammy Ashouri — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:32:22 +0000

I’m extremely interested to see where Yahoo! ends up in a year. I’m even considering buying a gripload of shares, but still a bit hesitant due to the big G.

Still doing my research, however. Best of luck.

Sammy Ashouri
http://www.fka200.com

By: T. Roberts

T. Roberts — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:28:31 +0000

Incredible. I remember the day I heard the news that Yahoo was in talks with Microsoft and how my stomach turned inside out, knowing what that merger would do. I was mortified. I ran to my computer and sent a message to you to stay away from that conglomerate corporation, they will infect and disease all of us whom consider Yahoo one of the friendliest internet companies in the world. I am equally mortified to know that Yahoo’s shareholders are so greedy that they would make the mistake to enhance there pocketbooks alone without realizing that so many users would just abandon yahoo immediately if such a thing were to happen.

Mr. Yang, you did the right thing. I only hope that your successor will understand and pay tribute to Yahoo users as you did. Shame on those shareholders for acting with such black hearts. It’s disgusting how they behave sometimes.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:08:16 +0000

Mr. Yang, as you have taken the bold decision, I hope there should be no looking back.

I’m sure you will excel in whatever you do in the future. All the very best.

Regards

Pravin S.

By: dave p

dave p — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:04:06 +0000

Sigue adelante Jerry, te deseo mucha suerte en el nuevo cargo que tendrás en Y! y espero que la companía salga pronto a flote…
I love you Yahoo!

By: Outdoors videos

Outdoors videos — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:18:11 +0000

Thank you for being an inspiration to all of us out there who are trying to make something work online. :) I appreciate what you have done for the internet, and those trying to make their little place in it. Thanks again, and have a good one!

By: Xiuyao

Xiuyao — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:32:37 +0000

Jerry, good fight for the past one year! I believe you and believe Yahoo!.

Best Wishes,

–Xiuyao

By: afewtips.com

afewtips.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:34:25 +0000

You should be (and I’m sure you are) very proud of all that you have delivered to the world.

It’s kinda like you need to allow your student to now go to college after being home schooled for so long.

They have the tools and now they need a new perspective.

Love Yahoo – I’m buying quality at a discount.

By: Srivastav Sethupathy

Srivastav Sethupathy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:16:03 +0000

You will always have Lord Ganesha’s blessings!
It has been a challenging year, but I’m sure, Yahoo will come out!

Om Ganeshaya Namahah!

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:28:16 +0000

Jerry, the biggest suggestion that I can make for Yahoo (ala Reagan) is “Tear down those walls, Mr. Yang.” Yahoo has an incredible amount of user and usage data, and most people utilize 2-4 Yahoo services so why can’t Yahoo provide me a 1+1=3 user experience?

Instead, it’s a bunch of information silos (which I am guessing is a by-product of the corporate structure), when Yahoo is naturally positioned to connect me with like minds, and content and conversations of interest.

Give me one profile that maps to all of my information flows across Mail, News, Finance, Games, Groups, etc. and make as much of that usage data (new, popular, favorited, recent, etc.) transparent so I am rewarded for making Yahoo my primary PERSISTENT sandbox.

Here’s some fodder for this concept in a post I wrote called:

Envisioning the Social Map-lication
http://thenetworkgarden.com/weblog/2008/04/envisioning-the.html

Check it out if interested.

p.s. I get that Yahoo has a bunch of piecemeal initiatives in this area, but would argue that they are still the tail, not the dog. Skunkworks it with a small group to prove it out.

Good luck.

Mark

By: dmatias

dmatias — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:37:27 +0000

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Best of wishes!
Good luck Jerry

By: Joel Schnebelt

Joel Schnebelt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:11:25 +0000

Jerry,

thanks for creating an environment that helps others, informs them, and makes them wanting to come back for more.

Yahoo has helped me in many ways; I get my email, I see updated news and videos and I stay informed with the World.

I hope that I can one day work for Yahoo.

All the best, Joel

By: Lataz

Lataz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:51:24 +0000

I remember ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web’

We are a world away from that…

Good Luck Jerry.

Lataz

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:59:08 +0000

Yahoo you need to change. Your paid searches are hard to use and opaque…we still use them but prefer google. We used to use your Merchant Solutions, but we left after our site went down a 7th time — the last time being Cyber Monday. We love our new provider (don’t think this is the appropriate forum to mention who, though).

I hope you guys are serious about turning over a new leaf…start with your customers who left, like me.