Observations on design, technology, music & popular culture
Is one of these team compositions inherently more likely to succeed in a turnaround effort of a large consumer internet company? You could argue the startup guys at MySpace are scrappier and have direct domain expertise. That said, maybe the AOL folks have an advantage – they’ve most recently operated large consumer internet companies and have seen systems, functional and not, which can help them guide the company. The Yahoo! folks, frankly, would seem the odd team out. Large company enterprise people running a consumer internet turnaround? Well, I remember when I joined IBM as my first job out of undergrad. I felt like my outsider perspective actually let me see broken things more clearly. Perhaps this is the inherent advantage of the Yahoo! team?
