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Re: Rent Gadgets Instead of Regretting Them, Startup Argues

Sriram Krishnan — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:24:32 -0000

I'm married to the founder :). I can confirm that we have way too many random tablets and bluetooth devices around the house. What can I say - we're gadget nerds!

Re: Why I Program in Go

Sriram Krishnan — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 01:52:18 -0000

The Yahoo java dameon you mentioned wouldn't be DISC/jDISC, would it? I used to run that team, would love to hear more if that is the case.

Re: Not fundable

Sriram Krishnan — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:42:06 -0000

Thanks. I was pretty surprised when Marissa wound up bringing in iPhones as one of her first moves. I like to think she read my blog and adopted my suggestion :)

Re: Not fundable

Sriram Krishnan — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:43:59 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Not fundable

Sriram Krishnan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:44:40 -0000

Way too long to list :)

Re: Not fundable

Sriram Krishnan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:44:32 -0000

Great link, thanks for sharing.

Re: Not fundable

Sriram Krishnan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:30:08 -0000

Maybe but being outside the Bay Area lets other kinds of companies emerge. For example, I think Spotify would have a hard time getting started here in 2008-2009.

Re: Not fundable

Sriram Krishnan — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:20:21 -0000

Or look beyond the obvious reasons. For example, Dropbox had a fantastic user experience and though there were other players, no one had seen widespread usage.

Re: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models - Advertising

Sriram Krishnan — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:29:09 -0000

Do you see search traffic on mobile moving from Google to inside specific apps? For example, the 'breakfast' example above.

It would be great to have a model where all apps could get search traffic (and not just for the words they stuff into their descriptions and keywords).

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:09:26 -0000

Test comment

Re: Mayer Will Extend Free Food to NYC Too, While “What Is Yahoo?” Question Is Hereby Banish’d

Sriram Krishnan — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:54:17 -0000

You know it's serious when Kara pulls out Shakespeare.

Re: Is It Time to Rethink the Stigma for Tech Companies Led by Couples?

Sriram Krishnan — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:54:33 -0000

Dave - all you need to do is to point out the founders of companies like Cisco, VMWare, Eventbrite. The first two definitely don't qualify as 'built to flip' companies :).

Re: The Wire as a case study of failed corporate strategy

Sriram Krishnan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:26:55 -0000

This was better than my post.

Re: Feature Friday: Android Sharing

Sriram Krishnan — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:34:08 -0000

On a tangential note, Windows 8 is baking this into the OS (MSFT calls them 'charms').

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:19:34 -0000

You're not the first person to notice. :) One of my best reports at Yahoo was female - amazing engineer.

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:33:25 -0000

if you see all the press reports on internal happenings at board meetings, at exec off-sites - is it really the low-level Yahoos who are the source of leaks?

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:32:27 -0000

Spot on.

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:59:23 -0000

Thanks - a few people noticed that :)

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:48:55 -0000

I think she has a clean charter/mandate from the board and she will probably replace the a lot of execs with her own people.

Her real problems are the state of Yahoo's products (both tech and in terms of usage trends) and employee culture.

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:46:43 -0000

ROFL - I was engineering manager for mdbm for a very short while (inherited it from my predecessor).

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:24:52 -0000

Yup - that's what I meant. I threw in ATD/Kara as they are the most visible face of the Yahoo press.

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:17:31 -0000

You can bet Yahoo's employees are. And it isn't helpful when you read of company wide changes in the press first.

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:14:49 -0000

I came from Microsoft. I was easy to please. :)

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:17:26 -0000

Actually, I dont agree. I would say - either invest heavily or spin-off/kill. The worst thing to do is to put them into limbo and not touch them forever.

Re: Unsolicited advice for Marissa Mayer

Sriram Krishnan — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:51:12 -0000

Yes and no. I can quote tons of other examples where things could have been done differently - and examples of things built in the recent past, not in the 90s. Would love to discuss specific tech choices over email (me@sriramk.com)