My Resignation from Yahoo
After much thought and consideration I have decided to resign my position at Yahoo. I know I never applied, nor was I interviewed or hired, but eventually everyone who is anyone at Yahoo must resign and I just wanted to get out in front of the rest of the crowd. The mass Exodus of Jeremy Zawodny, Jeff Weiner, and now the Founders of Flickr within days of the Google announcement is the sign that the most senior people across the board are voting with their feet - they have either made their money already and want to work on more fulfilling projects or they realize that Yahoo is never going to make them rich.
Seth Godin has written about sometimes quitting is the right thing. We teach our kids not to be quitters, but the honest truth is that you sometimes must quit something that is holding you back before moving on to even greater heights. I suspect that Yahoo is aggressively holding back its top talent and now is about to have a huge vacuum of talented leaders just at the time they need them most.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Diorex,
I think that should read ‘Founders of Flickr’, not twitter.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
That’s sage advise for all of us to separate ourselves from everything that is holding us back from both profitability and fulfillment. No matter how profitable my main business may become, it will never be very fulfilling.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
@ Jack - thanks fixed it… I am sure they would quit Yahoo as well, given the chance.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
You can’t quit just because I told you I quit. I had dibs on working where I already work.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
@ Polar Bear - I dont understand what you are saying most of the time anyway, so this is not that unusual. Did you just quit?
June 19th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Wow the bandwagon gets longer…. Pretty soon the only person left at Yahoo who I have heard of will be my Yahoo rep…http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/19/yahoos-executive-structure-crumbles-lu-garlinghouse-and-makhijani-to-leave/