Former employees exposed Yahoo failure reason: not focus on product development

Beijing time December 19 Morning news, Yahoo several former employees said a few days ago, Yahoo many products and services failed, a large part of the reason is that Yahoo does not focus on product development.　　After many founders of startups joined Yahoo, they were busy not with products, but by making PPT files to report to the top. Yahoo has been in dire straits for a long time. After a job cut earlier this week, a leaked internal memo shows that Yahoo will "handle" a range of services, including delicious, MyBlogLog, Yahoo Bookmarks and Yahoo! Jubak.　　Online event planning site upcoming, geographically shared platform Fire Eagle and some other products will be merged. In fact, Yahoo's chaotic state is far more than these, what is the cause of this series of failures?　　In this respect, many former Yahoo employees have published some of their own views, which can be seen some clues. "If they want to revive Yahoo, they should not manage their products like that," said Neil Kandalgaonkar, a former engineer at Yahoo upcoming Nier Kandar. Some products are also dependent on social networks, sharing a user base, but they are not merged into a product, but are split into several parts into the other product system. "Kendall thinks Flickr is an exception and relatively independent. But Kellan Elliott-mccrea, a former Kelen Allit Mchrey engineer at Flickr, said: "The Flickr team spent 85% of their time in communication and coordination with Yahoo in the past few years, and only 15% of the time spent on projects." "We had 18 meetings in 9 months to discuss how the Flickr API (Application programming Interface) was poorly designed and when it was closed," McRae said. "As for the bookmark service Delicious, former engineer Daff Dais (Dave Dash) says Yahoo lacks a vision. Although it has acquired delicious for several years, Yahoo has not really incorporated it into its own product system.　　Yahoo abandoned delicious founder, frequent change management team. "What I see is that when entrepreneurs join Yahoo, they are busy making PPT files instead of focusing on product development and sales," Zade Dickson, a former head of Yahoo Brickhouse, Chad Dickerson said. "(Li Ming)