Not only is Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)'s soap opera regarding its future continuing to progress at breakneck speed, the company continues to lose executives at the same rate. While subjects like an employee compensation poison pill, Carl Icahn, stubborn Jerry Yang, a fed-up Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) continue swirling around the Yahoo! campus, some of its best employees are waving goodbye to Yahoo! for good.Jeff Weiner, one the of executives who actually runs almost all of Yahoo!'s consumer-facing businesses, is leaving. Usama Fayyad, Yahoo's chief data officer and the man responsible for trying to make use of the mountains of data Yahoo! collects on its customers into information that can lead to increased monetization, is going as well. Jason Zajac, a vice president of corporate strategy, is also out the door. In the blogging world, Jeremy Zawodny -- one of the better proponents of open-source software use inside Yahoo! -- is leaving too.
Will the madness ever stop? In Yahoo!'s case, probably not. The funny thing is that Yahoo! is profitable -- just not profitable enough when constantly compared to Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). But the stuffy stance it has had in the potential Microsoft buyout and bickering defiantly with Carl Icahn wreaks of personal ego more than sound financial decision making and shareholder fiduciary duty. Some of its top employees can smell the spiraling downturn of the company's fortunes and are lining up in a single file to leave permanently. Here's your sign, folks.
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