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Bradley Horowitz a Yahoo double-agent inside Google?

What, exactly, is Yahoo's former VP of special projects Bradley Horowitz doing at Google? Innovating! If by "innovating" you mean spending his 20 percent time playing classic arcade games.
Bldg 44 has a vintage Defender video game. I own high score: 65000. Like riding a bike. Best perk ever.
A "laissez-faire mess" indeed. Doesn't Horowitz know that with an emulator he can play Defender at his desk and at least appear to be working? (Photo by jakrapong)

2:20 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Jackson West
1,478 views, 3 comments

journalist math

Average laid-off Yahoo made $90,000 a year

Severance pay and "related cash expenditures" will cost Yahoo between $20 million to $25 million, the company said in an SEC filing. Given that Yahoo laid off around 1,000 employees, crude math with these figures suggests laid-off Yahoos walked off with an average severance package of $20,000 to $25,000. Call it $7,500 a month for three months of severance pay. Annualized, that makes being a laid-off Yahoo a $90,000-a-year job. More »

9:22 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
4,037 views, 11 comments

100-word version

Horowitz says goodbye to Yahoo

Former Yahoo VP Bradley Horowitz left the company for Google Tuesday. Yesterday, he posted a 1,200-word explanation. Here's the readable version. More »

5:44 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
5,840 views, 13 comments

online video

Yahoo Video relaunches, and hints at video on Flickr

Yahoo Video has soft-launched a new website, in a move which speaks to both the potential of Yahoo and the company's utter disorganization. It has all the necessaries in the age of YouTube and Hulu: clips created by amateurs and professionals, playlists, and "exclusive" content. The latter, if true, is refreshing: Thanks to syndication deals which allow the endless regurgitation of video from site to site, most of the Hollywood-born clips on the Web are numbingly similar. The site also has a tantalizing promise: Video on Flickr. More »

10:06 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,419 views, 5 comments

Latest by snidleywhiplash: Flickr was a natural to become Yahoo's YouTube, but once they got merged into Yahoo, the inevitable creative paralysis set in and Flickr has been unable to do much of anything new or interesting. What have they done? They've added more »

rumormonger

Bradley Horowitz from Yahoo to Google?

Microsoft's bid for Yahoo has many eyeing the exits. But we hear that Bradley Horowitz, the VP in charge of Yahoo's advanced products group, has been plotting his escape long before Steve Ballmer's bear hug made it trendy. Since late last year, he's been interviewing at Google. It's not clear if he'll actually get the job, though. Google's hiring process is legendarily slow, but Larry and Sergey can get things moving on candidates they're keen on. If Horowitz was really wanted at the Googleplex, wouldn't he be working there by now? Or was Google just waiting to oust Chris Sacca, making room for another voluble professional conference attendee? Update: Bradley, we misunderestimated you. TechCrunch reports Horowitz is working on one of Google's most vaporous projects: its OpenSocial widget platform, alongside Excite founder Joe Kraus.

5:10 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,326 views, 3 comments

Latest by n/a: I thought he did a good job at Yahoo. He was the sponsor of the Hack culture at Yahoo, and I always loved the hack day events and lectures that his team would produce. I've heard he's going to Google more »

exits

Yahoo fires Salim Ismail, far too late

We hear that Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo's advanced-produts czar, has finally fired Salim Ismail, the head of Yahoo's Brickhouse incubator in San Francisco. Today's layoffs likely provided a convenient excuse to get rid of Ismail, a suavely incompetent liar. Ismail, a failed entrepreneur turned failed manager, was good at one thing: Getting press for products his group had not yet launched. We told you so.

4:35 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Owen Thomas
3,071 views, 5 comments

exits

Scott Gatz's long goodbye

Brad Garlinghouse's peanut butter memo raged against Yahoo's redundant products. For some Yahoos, farewells are equally repetitive. Scott Gatz, one of Yahoo's R&D managers until he left last month, held a second goodbye party in Sunnyvale today, as boss Bradley Horowitz's Flickr stream shows. Some attendees were puzzled: Didn't this guy leave already? Just imagine what Yahoo could do if it put the same effort into building projects for the future as it did saying goodbye to the past.

10:19 PM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By Owen Thomas
508 views, Comment

rumormonger

Scott Gatz escapes Yahoo Brickhouse

Rumor has it Scott Gatz, the brain behind Yahoo's search strategy earlier in the decade, more recently heading up part of Bradley Horowitz's Advanced Products Group, will leave Yahoo at the end of the year. Our source, who claims to have failed in trying to hire away Gatz in the past, tells us Gatz always professed to be happy at Yahoo. Apparently that's changed. Why? More »

4:00 PM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
2,055 views, 1 comment

party report

Take this Wikipedia and shove it



Elevation Partners — you know, the hedge fund with added Bono — threw a party for Wikipedia at the Third Street Grill. The big news was that Wikipedia has updated its license to be compatible with Larry Lessig's Creative Commons, which should make it even easier for schoolkids to copy entries wholesale into their term papers. Or something. I was on my fourth Cape Codder by the time they started announcing things, so I wasn't really paying attention. More »

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12:22 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Megan McCarthy
564 views, 2 comments

Latest by Owen Thomas: @Philipp Lenssen: Should we update the piece to read, "Something inconsequential happened with Wikipedia and Creative Commons"? Sounds like it. more »

mysteries

Bradley Horowitz joins Yahoo alumni group

Yahoo executive Bradley Horowitz has joined the Yahoo Alumni group on Facebook, Mashery CEO Oren Michels notes on Twitter. Now, anyone can join that Facebook group, so it could just be that Horowitz wants to stay in touch with departed colleagues. And we hear Horowitz is working closely with Yahoo president Sue Decker on a project, so every indication is that his star is on the rise. Still, the voluble Horowitz, normally a ceaseless status-caster on Twitter and Facebook, has yet to elaborate on his move.

1:17 PM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Owen Thomas
484 views, Comment

silicon valley tool

Yahoo Brickhouse exec in the doghouse

When you can't take market share, take credit. That's the unspoken motto of Yahoo since Google overshadowed the Web pioneer, and no one has mastered the art like Salim Ismail, the desperately unpopular VP in charge of Yahoo Brickhouse, the San Francisco incubator charged with inventing the company's future. One Yahoo insider calls him "notoriously slimy," and points to Ismail's recent announcement of Fire Eagle as an example of how Valleywag's latest and lamest Silicon Valley Tool does his work. More »

Feature

12:36 PM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Owen Thomas
2,852 views, 2 comments

Latest by mandarin: Somehow Yahoo and Slime seems to mix very well these days... more »

nerdspotting

Yahoos and hacks clutter The Lobby

Really, we're confounded. David Hornik's Lobby conference is ostensibly an invite-only affair. But some of the attendees had us scratching our head. Spotted, Yahoo's Bradley Horowitz, Brad Garlinghouse and Kiersten Hollars enjoying some sun instead of participating in Jerry Yang's 100-day turnaround of the company. Then there's Jessica Livingston and Paul Graham from Y Combinator. There's nary a 22-year-old wantrepreneur in sight, so what's the draw of this conference for them? Other inexplicables: Kara Swisher from AllThingsD, and TechCrunch heavyweight Michael Arrington, two notoriously gossipy hacks. Wasn't this event supposed to be off the record? And does Arrington even know what that means? (Photo by bradley23)

4:24 PM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By Megan McCarthy
908 views, Comment

nerdspotting

The Lobby's leisurely entrepreneurs

While other startup founders have to stay home and, you know, work, these guys have the time and the spare $3,000 to spend hanging out at a zero-agenda conference in Hawaii. (For the record, we're jealous.) Spotted in Yahoo executive Bradley Horowitz's Flickr stream: Benchmark entrepreneur-in-waiting Nirav Tolia; "stepped-up" LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman; FeedBurner founder Dick Costolo, who's rolling in Googlebucks; Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale; Evan Williams from Twitter; Mashery's Oren Michels; and
Kevin Rose (and his new haircut) from Digg with Joshua Schachter from the Yahoo-owned Del.icio.us. One question: Is this really Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg? I don't recognize him looking so unnerdly. (Photo by: bradley23)

3:53 PM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By Megan McCarthy
529 views, 3 comments

Latest by World of Warcraft Map Guy: Looks like all the photos are now marked private. more »

superficial

Kevin Rose Hawaii haircut crisis!

Everyone's heard of Kevin Rose, the genial, constantly drinking founder of Digg and host of the Diggnation webcast. And everyone's used to his sleepy-eyed, mopheaded good looks. Well, forget the mophead. From this Valleywag spy photo pic we spotted on Yahoo executive Bradley Horowitz's Flickr stream, Rose got a buzz cut before flying to Hawaii for VC David Hornik's exclusive Lobby conference. Does this have something to do with that Captain America comic? How will his online-video fans react? Will his Diggnation numbers plummet? And will women continue to ask him to sign their breasts? (Photo by bradley23)

9:47 AM on Thu Oct 25 2007
By Owen Thomas
4,043 views, 9 comments

Latest by Owen Thomas: Someone asked where Rose got the MIT T-shirt. No, he didn't go to MIT; the Digg founder is a UNLV comp-sci dropout. I suspect he picked up his Lobby garb at the recent EmTech conference held by MIT's Technology Review. more »

yahoo

Escape from the Brickhouse

Earlier today, we asked about Yahoo's Brickhouse — the ostensible incubator of innovation in San Francisco's South Park charged with reviving Yahoo's reputation for Web cool. Departures from the Pipes project, the only notable product release from Brickhouse, raised questions about the operation. Brickhouse head Bradley Horowitz thinks his group is "thriving," but a recent ex-Brickhouse employee reports otherwise. His complaints range from the petty (the office "smelled like dirty socks") to the more troubling (Horowitz, he claims, "suffers from god syndrome and needs to get over himself"). The full email, after the jump. More »

1:36 PM on Tue Sep 25 2007
By Megan McCarthy
2,255 views, 2 comments

Latest by fatbastard: There is (or at least used to be) a modeling agency in that same building.... I think they should kick Yahoo out of their space and do something useful for mankind -- increasing the population of attractive women in Soma. more »

"It's the difference between practicing piano after school in a regimented way versus smoking pot and jamming with your friends in a garage," — Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo's Blogger Appeasement Group, talking about the difference between growing innovation internally within a company verses a one-off stunt like last month's Yahoo Hack Day. [San Francisco Chronicle]

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great expectations

Silicon Valley's baby boom

I never intended for the blogger-baby story, which began with the birth of Ollie Kottke to A-list bloggers Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan, to become quite such a saga, but news has a way of happening. Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are no longer expecting a baby — they have a daughter, Sonnet Beatrice Butterfield, according to fellow Yahoo executive Bradley Horowitz. Here's the rundown on the rest of the couples mentioned in yesterday's baby poll, which — well done, readers — you guessed correctly. More »

Feature

7:45 AM on Thu Jul 12 2007
By Owen Thomas
3,708 views, 3 comments

Latest by Megan McCarthy: Heather Champ is not pregnant. more »