ColetteStamkos

Of those two, Fayyad is probably the more solid manager. He knows how to hire and he has an obsession with hiring and even monitors every offer made. Talking of micromanagement, Qi Lu is solid but is legendary for his super-micro-management...

Glad to see all your comments turn out to be false. While Yahoo is messed up, it has some solid jewels in people and technologies...

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ripopgome

Marco Boerries - probably gone regardless, as his 3 year vesting period is up in a few weeks. And to say he's disliked would be a vast understatement.

Mike Callahan - seems to be well liked and regarded, but why would he work for MS if he could be general counsel or venture partner somewhere else?

Coleman - already gone

Usama Fayyad - has a very busy schedule of visiting conferences, but few know what he actually does. He runs a huge team of data people that produce remarkably few valuable insights, and the Berkeley research lab who have come up with what? Despite his impressive resume, I don't see why MS would keep him.

Qi & Ash - It's interesting to note that if there are 14,300 people at the company, then the acquisition price of $45 billion works out to $3.15 million per head, or in terms of engineers, of which there are probably (generously) 8,500, $5.3 million per engineer. Probably worthe invesing in keeping these guys happy.

Mick - seems like a good guy - but MS already has an accounting department. They'll keep to handle the zillion accounting integration issues.

Jill - The process of lipsticking a corporate pig involves lots of PR. Still, that don't mean job for Jill.

Libby - why would they need another HR lead?

Hilary - Still pretty new. Runs the sales function, which isn't exactly a business. Regardless, someone is going to have to run sales, but in that she doesn't have a ton of experience, and yes, she's a Deckerite, so she's probably gone.

Jeff - Was Terry's boy when he joined, but he's grown a lot. He is probably the manager at Yahoo most capable of Ballmer style executive interrogation. He's runs a disciplined team. He's passionate, intelligent, articulate, and convincing. Keeper.

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Owen Thomas

Bad timing? How about fucking awesome timing! Homeboy just finagled himself a three-year paid vacation.

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manenfuego

WEFwatcher

as for Ari, bad timing? sounds like perfect timing to me! you know he has some advanced vesting/payout on ownership changes negotiated into his agreement. cha-mutha-fuckin-ching!

not that it really matters at the end of the day, i suppose. hopefully together they can keep google in check and some good yahoo tech types will end up on the market in the next few weeks/months (feel free to send me resumes ;)).

now, where'd i leave that tinfoil hat.....

-mike

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