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Silicon Valley's Yahoo Diaspora Mourns Company's Decline


Ron Burgundy
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File photo of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer delivering her keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las VegasBy Deborah M. Todd and Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former Yahoo executive Dan Rosensweig has not worked at the pioneering internet company in nearly a decade. "I hire as many ex-Yahoos as I can, because I know their commitment, their talent." Rosensweig - now CEO of the online education company Chegg Inc - is one of scores of executives around Silicon Valley who still "bleed purple," as many Yahoo alums put it, despite the company's more recent instability and decline. In the formative years of the web, Yahoo was the biggest, richest internet upstart in Silicon Valley, and it incubated a generation of executives.




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