Saying goodbye to my big, purple friend. And all my little purple friends, too.
June 12th, 2007After almost 5 years (4 years, 11 months to be more precise) I’ve officially left Yahoo!
I remember so clearly the first time I stepped onto the campus in Sunnyvale, back in 2001. It was awesome, especially for someone who’d worked at a string of small startups. Here I was at Yahoo, the #1 site on the internet. Blazing fast. Easy to use. Beautiful, modern buildings. Sunny and bright. Glass cafeteria. Outdoor volleyball courts. I wasn’t sure if I was at an office, or some futuristic college campus.
It still is an impressive place. Now, of course, there is also a Mission College campus, a Santa Monica office, an OvertureYSM office in Pasadena, the San Francisco offices, Berkeley offices… apparently it’s part of Yahoo’s strategy to seed various cities with purple and yellow furniture, candy, caffeine, laptops, and some cool, smart people.
No doubt what I’ll miss most is the great people I had a chance to work with. If I try to list all of those people, this post would get insanely long. And then I’ll decide I have to link to their various online profiles, put up their photos, thank them specifically, maybe format the list yet again. Basically, I’ll never finish this post. I can’t even do the “team” shout out since I worked with several teams and groups across the Yahoo matrix. Is “you know who you are” good enough?? I hope so.
Suffice it to say that the time came for me to start something new, from the outside of the purple kingdom. The beauty of it is, I still have my friends and colleagues from the big Y (all day, every day, omnipresent on Y Messenger). It’s not really goodbye at all, except to the Yahoo! campus. To all my Yahoo friends, it’s just TTYS.
June 12th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
ya are missed! =)
June 12th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Thanks Karen. Miss you too
June 13th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
hey mike!
bummed i missed your ‘going away’, but good to see that we can always keep ‘tabs’ on you.
hope all is well.
a little purple friend,
fern
June 13th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
thanks Fern. Yep, you know where to find me.
Hope the big Y is treating you well!
June 18th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
miss you already! given our track record, I bet we’ll be working together again in the future (and again, and maybe a couple more times after that!)
June 18th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Newman!!
Thanks, man. I have that funny feeling myself. We’ll be working together in some way, shape or form, hopefully soon.
Until then, keep on rockin’ the big Y.