Jerry Yang retires from Yahoo! CEO

Jerry Yang: the legend man, co-founder of Yahoo! Yesterday, he resigned as CEO of the company, returning to his usual Yahoo Chief post, whatever that means.

In June 2007, after the resignation of entertainment industry veteran Terry Semal , Yang was appointed by the board of directors to a position that is in fact the face of the company and the highest governance body. Such a step was made for a reason: at that time, Yahoo was already preparing for massive reorganizations and innovations and, in the opinion of shareholders, the face of the company's founder would look good against the background of all changes.

By that time, the company had fairly successful products (compared to an even earlier period), like Yahoo! Music, which was the monetary vein for the company, or Yahoo! Buzz. All this without mentioning the already promoted resources: Flickr, Delicio.us and others. And it was at that moment that “Yaha” became the object of the desire of software giants, like Microsoft — we all know this story. The main changes that were planned were made: these were new platforms, products, the integration of user profiles into a social network. In my opinion, this is exactly what caused the departure from the place of constant tension.
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Before leaving, Jerry Yang wrote a note to all Yahoo employees, which ends with the words: “I’m more grateful for the efforts of all of you — we made Yahoo more open and competitive.”

In the old / new Chief post (for Yang, this is the position of the web evangelist), Jerry will undoubtedly continue to influence the company's products and life, we can only hope that Yahoo will not stop at what has been achieved and will not die in the hands of the corporation anymore.