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Yahoo Seeking Savior CEO
- AllThingsD, Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:29 PM
Are there any executives brave (crazy?) enough to think they can bring Yahoo back to its former glory? “Whatever you want to call him or her -- a silver bullet, the cure or, as I like to say, the last unicorn -- Yahoo’s ever-seeking and never-deciding board has now renewed its focus on finding a new CEO,” writes AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher.
The board’s mission, sources tell Swisher, is to find “some compelling and entrepreneurial CEO to get the company moving again from a product point of view, do a massive organizational overhaul and help settle Yahoo’s thorny Asian issues.” But who or what could achieve such godly goals? Google business lead Nikesh Arora has apparently been considered, but, as Swisher tells us, he isn’t likely to leave the search giant. Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is being eyed as another potential savior, along with Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson, and even online ad entrepreneur Brian McAndrews, who sold aQuantive to Microsoft. Regarding Kilar, sources tell Swisher that he met with Yahoo board members about the offer, “but his hiring would be a long shot.”
