Q of the Day: Is a start-up the ‘Hotel California’?

The “departure yesterday of Terry Semel as CEO”:http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=16&articleId=9025200&intsrc=hm_topic was newsworthy for sure, but more interesting to us was that Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang took up the helm, again.
It is noteworthy that Yahoo!’s board didn’t give Jerry the common title of “interim CEO” (which would have indicated that the company was hunting for another professional outsider to run the company), or name Susan Decker CEO, as some on Wall Street have been expecting. (She gets the new title of President.) Read the “full press release here”:http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?&ReleaseID=249882.

*Anyway, Yang’s heroic return to save his struggling Yahoo! made us wonder: can a founder ever _really_ leave the company he created?*

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