The Garlinghouse family takes over Yahoo

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Owen Thomas

12/27/07 03:20PM

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Brad Garlinghouse, the controversial Yahoo executive who won fame by accusing management of spreading investments around like a "thin layer of ... peanut butter", has a sister, Meg, who also works at the company. Who got whom the job at Yahoo is a matter of testy debate. What's undebatable: the brother-and-sister duo practically own Yodel Anecdotal, the company blog, this month. Three full posts are devoted to their glories.

Couldn't Yahoo have found someone besides Garlinghouse frère and soeur to write about? Perhaps not. With all the defections, the company has fewer and fewer stars to draw on. CEO Jerry Yang is press-shy, and President Sue Decker is downright mediaphobic. Flaunt what you've got.

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tokenfemale Owen Thomas 12/30/07 02:06PM

I highly, highly doubt he needed anyone to "get" him the job, his degree and his startup did it just fine. Brad joined Yahoo at the same time as a whole slew of other Harvard business school grads. He continued to hire a bunch more himself. Yahoo Messenger also fully integrated the technology his startup created (dialpad).

Meg's team runs the blog. A writer's gotta grab blog content from they you can, right?

Valleygrrl Owen Thomas 12/27/07 04:08PM

judging by the moron who let Penelope Trunk go, Yahoo is bereft of intelligence, indeed.

I also hear Mr. Garlinghouse is not the leader his email would make him out to be. So maybe he's stuck there because it's the best *he* can do too.

Perhaps what this whole thing is then, codependence?

shumba Owen Thomas 01/17/08 06:47AM

Ah yes. Dialpad. The company Garlinghouse took to bankruptcy and was fired from? I guess f*cking up a company does get you a job at Yahoo!

And the Dialpad technology was certainly integrated into Messenger - the crap voice quality and poor reliability of Yahoo! Voice are ample proof of that...

Automatt Owen Thomas 12/27/07 04:40PM

The blog is called Yodel Anecdotal which kinda rhymes, not Yahoo Anecdotal, which doesn't.