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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Jerry Yang&#8217;s departure from Yahoo is as sad as it is overdue</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/01/17/jerry-yangs-departure-from-yahoo-is-as-sad-as-it-is-overdue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The decision by co-founder Jerry Yang to resign from the Yahoo board is as sad as it is overdue.
No matter how rudderless Yahoo had become in recent years, Yang deservedly remains a Silicon Valley icon. He was there at the start of the Internet era, along with co-founder David Filo, building one of the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zynga revenues still growing but users declining as competitors close the gap. Can CastleVille win some new fans?</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/11/04/zynga-revenues-still-growing-but-users-declining-as-competitors-close-the-gap-can-castleville-win-some-new-fans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Zynga released its latest quarterly earnings number in an updated prospectus. Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat has a good overview of the numbers:
&#8220;Zynga reported net income of $12.5 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, down 54 percent from $27 million a year ago, according to anupdated S1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update to Zynga IPO filing provides grist for critics and fans</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/10/13/update-to-zynga-ipo-filing-provides-grist-for-critics-and-fans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While Zynga&#8217;s update to its IPO filing today doesn&#8217;t have huge news, it does include two important clarifications that will provide fodder for both critics fans of the company.
First, the bottom line: The clarifications confirm that users are playing Zynga games for shorter periods of time. That&#8217;s going to fuel critics. But, the company also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LinkedIn data explores DNA of the perfect entrepreneur</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/09/01/linkedin-data-explores-dna-of-the-perfect-entrepreneur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With millions of users and more joining every second, LinkedIn has become a data nerd&#8217;s delight. And it allows for intriguing experiments like the one recently conducted by Monica Rogati, LinkedIn&#8217; senior data scientist.
Rogati was curious: What could that rich set of data tell her about the factors that go into making an entrepreneur? Or, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solyndra CEO last January: Company is &#8220;on the right track&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/08/31/solyndra-ceo-last-january-company-is-on-the-right-track/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last January, the Merc&#8217;s Dana Hull wrote a tough but fair story about Solyndra, the solar manufacturer in Fremont that had fallen on rough times.
The company was in full denial. Just a few weeks earlier, when I was speaking at a media forum, I made reference to Solyndra&#8217;s problems. A PR rep came up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I didn&#8217;t include Jack Dorsey on the &#8220;next Steve Jobs&#8221; list</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/08/29/why-i-didnt-include-jack-dorsey-on-the-next-steve-jobs-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/08/29/why-i-didnt-include-jack-dorsey-on-the-next-steve-jobs-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ceo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following my Sunday column, &#8220;Who will be Silicon Valley&#8217;s next Steve Jobs?&#8221; the most common response I got was: Why wasn&#8217;t Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on the list? That was echoed in comments, tweets and emails.
In fact, I did strongly consider Dorsey. But ultimately, I dropped him.
There are certainly many intriguing parallels between the Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Twitter should sell and Google should buy</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/02/10/why-twitter-should-sell-and-google-should-buy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/02/10/why-twitter-should-sell-and-google-should-buy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There were two tantalizing tidbits that broke yesterday about Twitter. 
The first was a nice scoop by All Things D&#8217;s Kara Swisher that Andreessen Horowitz had bought $80 million dollars worth of Twitter&#8217;s stock from employees in a secondary placement. Every more interesting, though also more vague, was a report by Swisher&#8217;s sister publication, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc Bodnick departs Elevation Partners for Quora</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/01/28/marc-bodnick-departs-elevation-partners-for-quora/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2011/01/28/marc-bodnick-departs-elevation-partners-for-quora/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official: Marc Bodnick, co-founder of the investment fund Elevation Partners, has left to join Quora, one of Silicon Valley&#8217;s hottest start-ups.
In a press release issued late Thursday night, the Elevation said:
&#8220;Elevation Partners, a private equity firm focused on large-scale investments in market leading consumer and technology businesses, announced today that Managing Director Marc Bodnick has resigned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Digg CEO Jay Adelson and the confessions of a start-up addict</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/10/26/former-digg-ceo-jay-adelson-and-the-confessions-of-a-start-up-addict/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/10/26/former-digg-ceo-jay-adelson-and-the-confessions-of-a-start-up-addict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As executive confessions go, the one delivered by former Digg CEO Jay Adelson in a public forum this week stands out as one of the most remarkable ones I&#8217;ve ever seen for both its brutal honesty and fearless self examination.
The occassion was a fireside chat at FailCon 2010 with Cathy Brooks, who runs the Story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Reaping Benefits Of Soaring Stock Price</title>
		<link>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/09/22/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-reaping-benefits-of-soaring-stock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.siliconbeat.com/2010/09/22/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-reaping-benefits-of-soaring-stock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris O'Brien</dc:creator>
		
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There are plenty of CEOs in Silicon Valley that I could pick on when it comes to executive compensation. And when I do, I inevitably get an email from a reader accusing me of being resentful that someone else is simply making a lot of money. But that&#8217;s not true.
And as evidence, let me now [...]]]></description>
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