Yahoo!, co-founder Jerry Yang resigns

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Yahoo! is one of the best-known companies in the net economy. Founded before Google, in 1995, Yahoo! enjoyed great popularity for years, far more than BIG G. Some disastrous decisions have left a company immobile that could not afford this “luxury” (no company in the net economy can), relegating the corporation and the search engine, the company’s flagship, to a secondary role.

Will the mistakes made in recent years have led Jerry Yang, one of the founders of Yahoo! along with David Filo, to resign from all positions in the corporation. In a nutshell, Jerry Yang chose the path of total abandonment of the company. Meanwhile, the resignation of Yang was not at all disliked by stock market operators, so much so that the stock of Yahoo! gained about 3%. A sign that shareholders believe in a relaunch of the company and especially in a transformation in the aftermath of Jerry Yang.

‘s departure. Yahoo! is a company with brilliant ideas that were not put into practice. A sort of laboratory that only churns out prototypes, then leaves others to transform the ideas into projects. One example is advertising in the search engine. Google AdWords is not a stroke of genius made in Google.

Before the Mountain View corporationMountain View had already considered it.Yahoo!which, however, never took action to best develop the idea. And soGoogle, strengthened by the competitor’s weakness, not only madeGoogle Adwordsa “flagship” but over time refined the idea, transforming it and polishing it in the right places.

The farewell ofJerry Yang, who declared he wanted to dedicate himself to other interests outside ofYahoo!, promotedScott Thompsonas CEO. We just have to wait and see if the departure ofYangwill really cause a shake-up atYahoo!or if it will mark the slow decline of a company that is a child of the first generation of the Internet.