I found it infuriating. I mean we all make mistakes, but this is clearly some obtuse point that he makes by totally ignoring English.
The content seemed sincere. However if I was in yahoo I would be tempted to spend my life hunting and killing people who don't capitalise sentences. It would scar me for life.
This has become a rule for me: never criticize usage, grammar, or spelling on the internet. Fate immediately arranges for me a blunder of some sort to knock me down a notch.
Agreed, bad news presented with poor grammar would be bothersome at best. I will say, however, that most of them are probably used to those mannerisms.
He's not dumb. He and Filo were in the PhD program in CS at Stanford when they started the company.
A lot of the problem here is Google. Google draws away much of the online ad revenue that would have been Yahoo's. It also draws away most of the good hackers, so Yahoo continues to fall behind.
If Airbus were an outlier on the scale that Google is, Boeing would look terrible.
I don't see how Google can draw away Yahoo's online ad revenue. Only in the sense that Google competes with Yahoo for search impressions. On the media side of things Google is not a serious competitor.
That Yahoo can't monetize the search impressions they do get as well as Google (and thus would benefit from Google monetization deal) is purely a technical execution failure for Yahoo engineering and executives. To this day you can't take an export from Google AdWords account and import it in Yahoo. They say you can, but their SEM system is not powerful enough to support anything nontrivial.
He seems to be the whipping boy in the media though (which is how most people would "know" him) - I assume you know him personally though.
I wouldn't expect him to be dumb like that, but a bumbling manager watching your "baby" suffer was more what I was thinking. I am sure there are furious shareholders right now.
The content seemed sincere. However if I was in yahoo I would be tempted to spend my life hunting and killing people who don't capitalise sentences. It would scar me for life.