Comments on: Yahoo Board, Dazed and, Of Course, Confused http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080218/yahoo-board-dazed-and-of-course-confused/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080218/yahoo-board-dazed-and-of-course-confused/#comment-2850 Kara Swisher Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:36:27 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080218/yahoo-board-dazed-and-of-course-confused/#comment-2850 Alan: Well, exactly! Alan:

Well, exactly!

]]> By: alan wilensky http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080218/yahoo-board-dazed-and-of-course-confused/#comment-2848 alan wilensky Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:05:01 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080218/yahoo-board-dazed-and-of-course-confused/#comment-2848 After a very well prepared Technical strategy session that I gave to my company's board (I was not an Exec. just a Sr. Manager), one august and wizened figure commented, completely off-topic: "What about that guys who made billions selling baby teething accessories on infomercials ?" "Huh?", I said; I was hoping for a more critical and pointed response on how we were going to deploy the millions we had just raised through a 90's era IPO. "Yeah", the older man said, "If that guy can make billions selling plastic crap made in China, why so you guys need to go through these hoops". "uhhhh...." After a very well prepared Technical strategy session that I gave to my company’s board (I was not an Exec. just a Sr. Manager), one august and wizened figure commented, completely off-topic:

“What about that guys who made billions selling baby teething accessories on infomercials ?”

“Huh?”, I said; I was hoping for a more critical and pointed response on how we were going to deploy the millions we had just raised through a 90’s era IPO.

“Yeah”, the older man said, “If that guy can make billions selling plastic crap made in China, why so you guys need to go through these hoops”.

“uhhhh….”

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