I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.
I haven't gotten any calls to run GM.
People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it's had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.
Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.
I will never be a CEO again.
I like Google.
I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.
People are getting patents on things that are too general.
The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
I believe Yahoo!'s best years are still ahead of it.
Yahoo is a consumer brand. It is a consumer brand that allows people to get what they want from the Internet in a way that only Yahoo can deliver it.
There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.
I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.
It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.
Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.
Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.
Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.
The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.
The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.
The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.
Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.
Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.
Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.
I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.
Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.
China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.
I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.
I'm a Stanford kid through and through.
You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.
The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
