Comments on: Memo to Carl Icahn: Please Simmer Down! http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080610/memo-to-carl-icahn-please-simmer-down/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:51:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ron Pettengill http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080610/memo-to-carl-icahn-please-simmer-down/#comment-3298 Ron Pettengill Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:30:33 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080610/memo-to-carl-icahn-please-simmer-down/#comment-3298 one can only hope. in retrospect i flew off the handle - driven by the incompetence, ego and any lack of professionalism that infects Yahoo management love your columns. one can only hope. in retrospect i flew off the handle – driven by the incompetence, ego and any lack of professionalism that infects Yahoo management

love your columns.

]]> By: Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080610/memo-to-carl-icahn-please-simmer-down/#comment-3297 Kara Swisher Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:21:52 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080610/memo-to-carl-icahn-please-simmer-down/#comment-3297 Ron: We all know Carl Icahn's business as a professional shareholder. But this is not giving Yahoo a kick in the pants. I think it will work as well as his experience at Time Warner. Which is to say, nothing will truly change. Ron:

We all know Carl Icahn’s business as a professional shareholder. But this is not giving Yahoo a kick in the pants. I think it will work as well as his experience at Time Warner. Which is to say, nothing will truly change.

]]> By: Ron Pettengill http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080610/memo-to-carl-icahn-please-simmer-down/#comment-3295 Ron Pettengill Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:05:48 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080610/memo-to-carl-icahn-please-simmer-down/#comment-3295 excuse me but why should Carl Ichan care about Yahoo employees? He is an investor. He buys publicly traded stock and expects the company be run for the betterment of the shareholders. Not the public and not the employees - the shareholders. Now it is certainly true that a company survives by balancing the needs of all three, but, it is the responsibility of a public company CEO (now hear this Mr. Yang) to listen objectively and consider bona fide offers for the purchase of the company that you are an officer of. When Microsoft offers you a premium on your moribund stock (and company) - you better perk up your ears and listen. maybe if Messrs Yang and company had devoted the same energy and cleverness to their core business that they have to poison pill strategies they might not be in the position of having to listen to what they consider Carl Ichan's sniping. but they didn't. so carl ichan plays the role that all raiders play - giving a lazy company a kick in the pants. excuse me but why should Carl Ichan care about Yahoo employees? He is an investor. He buys publicly traded stock and expects the company be run for the betterment of the shareholders. Not the public and not the employees – the shareholders. Now it is certainly true that a company survives by balancing the needs of all three, but, it is the responsibility of a public company CEO (now hear this Mr. Yang) to listen objectively and consider bona fide offers for the purchase of the company that you are an officer of. When Microsoft offers you a premium on your moribund stock (and company) – you better perk up your ears and listen. maybe if Messrs Yang and company had devoted the same energy and cleverness to their core business that they have to poison pill strategies they might not be in the position of having to listen to what they consider Carl Ichan’s sniping. but they didn’t. so carl ichan plays the role that all raiders play – giving a lazy company a kick in the pants.

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