• TechCrunch, Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:06 PM

Madhu Yarlagadd, Skype's Chief Development Officer of just one month, has left the company, TechCrunch reports. The New York Times attributes Yarlagadd's hasty departure to scathing personal comments in TechCrunch's comment section. "The post they're referring to has dozens of extremely detailed negative comments about Yarlagadda, although we've deleted the worst of them," writes TechCrunch founder and co-editor Michael Arrington.

"That level of uniform negativity was unprecedented in our experience." Yarlagadda was previously a VP Engineering, Messenger, at Yahoo. Yarlagadda apparently made a bad situation worse when he reached out to former colleagues, and pleaded with them to write positive comments to counteract the negative ones on TechCrunch. Yarlagadda's responsibilities at Skype included running engineering for all of its products. His sudden departure, meanwhile, comes on the heels of Skype's preliminary IPO bid.

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