{"id":113,"date":"2007-02-20T05:57:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T05:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/2007\/02\/20\/the_amazing_pace_of_change_at_my_alma_mater_yahoo\/"},"modified":"2007-02-20T05:57:42","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T05:57:42","slug":"the_amazing_pace_of_change_at_my_alma_mater_yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/the_amazing_pace_of_change_at_my_alma_mater_yahoo.html","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Pace of Change at My Alma Mater, Yahoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found the email that detailed the re-org at Yahoo! from Sue Decker, head of the new Advertiser &amp; Publisher Group.  It&#8217;s posted at Techcrunch:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/02\/14\/text-of-email-to-all-yahoos\/\">Text of Email to all Yahoos, Techcrunch<\/a><br \/>\nI have been out of Yahoo! since Sept 2004, and in 2+ short years, I see:<br \/>\n* Lots of EVPs and SVPs.  They used to make you run the gauntlet before making even VP.<br \/>\n* I only recognize about 6 names in the email out of about 15.  The influx of new people is staggering at the higher levels.  Where did all the people I knew go?<br \/>\n* The company is organizing in a very &#8220;large company&#8221; way.  The changes were in the making while I was still there, but now they are extended more.<br \/>\n* Valleywag&#8217;s post about <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/yahoo\/slightly-less-kneeling-before-zod-237848.php\">slightly less kneeling before Zod<\/a> is a bit cutting, but it does make a point.  I am not sure that splitting engineering (and by the way I heard through the grapevine that my old user experience group is reporting into the product teams now too) is going to be good for the company in the long term.<br \/>\nTo me, companies always undergo cycles; they try things, they work or don&#8217;t work, and then they go back to try old things, and then they work\/don&#8217;t work, and then you&#8217;re back to trying stuff you tried before.  I suppose it&#8217;s one way to keep the world off balance to distract you from other possible issues with the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found the email that detailed the re-org at Yahoo! from Sue Decker, head of the new Advertiser &amp; Publisher Group. It&#8217;s posted at Techcrunch: Text of Email to all Yahoos, Techcrunch I have been out of Yahoo! since Sept 2004, and in 2+ short years, I see: * Lots of EVPs and SVPs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-culture","category-internet-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}