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Fred Wilson breaks up Yahoo

While Yahoo's board dithers over whom to sell the company's soul to, VC blogger Fred Wilson has a different plan in mind. "Yahoo should reject the offer and what they should do instead is break up the company into a series of smaller companies," he told TechTicker in the interview excerpted here. Yahoo's entertainment sites could be one spinoff; its HotJobs website another, he says. Left unsaid: A broken-up Yahoo would mean more buyers for the small startups Wilson backs.

3:40 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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  • Image of Peeeps Peeeps at 05:13 PM on 04/14/08
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    That's why Fred stands out as a VC, with such shooting-darts-in-the-dark thinking.

    Let's spin out that photo service into a company, and call it flickr. Let's spin out that social bookmark service into a company, and call it delicious. Let's...

    Yahoo just needs good leadership. Jerry has to give it up, to people who know what they're doing. Yes, Microsoft qualifies. Otherwise, find your own set...fast.

    Break them up? I'll just write this off as Fred trying to be different for the sake of it.

  • Image of sggrf sggrf at 01:35 PM on 04/15/08
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    Neither site, flickr or delicious have a revenue model. someone's in dreamland

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