I've got a new job at Yahoo!: VP of Product Strategy, reporting to CPO Ash Patel.
This is something that I couldn't be happier about. In addition to the groups I've helped build and will be bringing over from Search, I've also inherited a number of very exciting, impactful groups. The Product Strategy Group now includes:
I'm going to take some time and try to do a blog post about each of these groups. Each one is exciting and represents huge opportunity to effect change within or outside of the company.
I don't wanna get mushy here, but this is an appropriate time for me to pause and offer my thanks to those who have made my experience at Yahoo to date so rewarding. Specifically those in Search who encouraged me and helped me "invent" this role and group: Jeff Weiner, Eckart Walther, Qi Lu, Andrew Braccia, and Tim Cadogan. A special thanks to Prabhakar Raghavan, Marc Davis, Joe Siino and Usama Fayyad for our collaboration around Yahoo Research Berkeley. Thanks to Toni Schneider and Jeffrey McManus for the incredible work getting YDN off the ground. Thanks to Ash Patel for recognizing that what we incubated in Search could, and should, graduate to Yahoo!, Inc. Quick shout outs to Toby, Jerry, Dan, Sue, Terry, Zod, Kwok, Kathryn, Jennifer, Tim R, Ken N, Joff, Tomi, Ken H, Raymie, Stewart, Thrall, Ramesh, Karnes, Ethan, Volk, Kaigene, Hyrkin, Mandelbrot, etc., etc., etc. Apologies to the many, many I've neglected...
You'll note that I've deliberately not mentioned any of my team, because they're gonna get special love in upcoming posts.
I'm actually speaking at Supernova tomorrow and am going to share a bit about "Innovation at Yahoo!" There is something very special happening at Yahoo! of late, and it honestly feels like we're just getting started. I'm privileged to be a part of it. Can't wait to share more with you all.
7 comments:
[...] Now that Bradley has mentioned it and Jeremy alluded to it, it’s time for me to write it here. As of this week, I’m leading the Yahoo! Developer Network and Jeremy has joined the team that sprung from the team he helped build originally. [...]
Hi Bradley,
I've just heard something’s about Content 2.0 on a podcast and ended up here.
I was wondering when you think Yahoo will be ready to move from the current search process to an intuitive find using automated semantic matrices. This allows people to bypass all the problems that manual semantic(e.g. web 2.0), wikipedia and others have when people start classifying data.
Hey Bradley,
That's awesome, congratulations! Glad your greatness is being recognized ;-)
Jin
This sounds like a great group. Go get 'em!!
[...] Chad Dickerson who was instrumental in the original inspiration for Mashup Camp has taken over the top post at Yahoo!’s Developer Network (YDN). Wrote Chad on his blog: Now that Bradley has mentioned it and Jeremy alluded to it, it’s time for me to write it here. As of this week, I’m leading the Yahoo! Developer Network and Jeremy has joined the team that sprung from the team he helped build originally…..I’m too busy diving in to the new role to write much about it. I would say the usual “I’m looking forward to it,” but I’m already immersed. [...]
[...] And, well, it’s time for a change again. I’ve just started a new job: leading Yahoo’s Advanced Products Group. In the new job, I’ll become part of Bradley Horowitz’s Product Strategy Group and sit along side people like Caterina Fake, Chad Dickerson at YDN, Ellen Salisbury at Y! Berkeley Research Labs and lots of other great people. And, I’m lucky to be joining a team of amazing people. APG is the group that launched Yahoo! Podcasts and that is working on some really, really cool stuff (that I can’t tell you about). [...]
Congrats for the new job Bradley.
the "Yahoo Research Berkeley" group sounds very interesting, what are they working on these days? =)
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