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Makes me sad that insiders cashed out instead of focusing on building the business.

Very surprised they didn't pay the breakup fee, simply to avoid articles and threads like these. Reputation is all you have in this business.

Sarah is a very thoughtful and serious journalists, she wouldn't write this story if there wasn't something here. She is pretty open about the fact that she obviously doesn't have all the details - that is good reporting.

Love that smart people are starting to tackle health problems. This is a huge global issue in need of significant innovation.

This is what success looks like. As a two-sided marketplace OpenTable is a fantastic business with very high barriers to entry. This is classic case of investor patience paying off.

The only ones worth of this list are Quora and Square.

Some of our best ideas come from when we are away from the computer totally engaged in something other than work. I think Seth and others will ultimately learn this.

I agree -- a high-school basketball coach has massive impact on a relatively small number of people yet a really good coach can have deep and lasting impact.

The same thing can be said of Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and most of the tech titans. Sounds like you just have something against powerful people.

There is no single Yahoo (part of the identity problem Yahoo has) and therefore you cannot generalize a culture across Yahoo.

Each division within Yahoo really had its own culture. The search group culture was entirely different from the media (news, sports, etc.) group which was entirely different from the listings (real-estate, etc.) business.

A group like Yahoo Search (prior to its sale) was an entirely tech centric organization. Many of the top engineers from Yahoo Search Yahoo! are now co-founders within top Silicon Valley startups.

Advice that basically boils down to you should have customers and revenue doesn't seem incredibly helpful.