Yahoo shareholder trades stake for bag full of literary allusions
Owen Thomas · 10/10/08 04:00PMEric Jackson, the sassy activist investor who made so much trouble for Yahoo this year, has given up the ghost, crapped out, sailed into the sunset — pick your truism, Jackson has probably used it! He gave hunky videoblogger John Paczkowski a block-that-metaphor-worthy explanation for why he sold his hedge fund's Yahoo stake at $20: