Peanut butter manifesto scribe seeking to raise $150M venture fund?
Update: Brad Garlinghouse has gotten in touch and given us his new email address, which has SilverLake Partners in the domain name, implying he has some sort of job at that private equity firm. He wouldn’t comment on his exact position. He did say the article below is inaccurate, but wouldn’t elaborate much. This may suggest any such plans to raise a fund may have been put off. He wouldn’t comment on whether he’d worked… Continue Reading
Internal “Peanut Butter” memo at Yahoo points to malaise
Brad Garlinghouse is the Senior Vice President at Yahoo, and runs Yahoo Mail. He has written a memo sharply critical of Yahoo, and it has been leaked to the WSJ. In it, he says Yahoo is adrift:
We have lost our passion to win. Far too many employees are “phoning” it in, lacking the passion and commitment to be a part of the solution. We sit idly by while — at all levels — employees are… Continue Reading