Yahoo needs a tourniquet — and fast.
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Schachter follows search and advertising technology group senior vice president Qi Lu, Yahoo Search’s Vish Makhijani, and quite possibly senior vice president Brad Garlinghouse out the door — and that is just the ones who left or are rumored to be leaving today.
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Don’t forget Flickr co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake who left Yahoo a couple days ago and executive Jeff Weiner who left to be an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel Partners and Greylock Partners just a few days ago.
Needless to say, things are getting ugly at Yahoo. It’s questionable if anyone can stop the bleeding let alone restore any morale among the remaining troops.
Somewhere Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer may be privately smiling. While billionaire investor Carl Icahn is probably preparing another blog post.
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