This week's survey question asked whether you thought Jerry Yang, the beleaguered CEO of Yahoo, should be booted out of the company after very public criticism of his mismanagement by the New York Times, shareholder/rabblerouser Carl Icahn, and others.
Your resounding response was "Boot.Him.Out." Since posting the survey, Yang has continued to have a difficult week on the heels of that scathing article written in last weekend's New York Times. While Wednesday marked his one year anniversary as CEO of Yahoo, many observers are questioning how much longer he'll make it. Not only has Yahoo bled a few top execs this week such as content chief Jeff Weiner, but sources say that they're in a hiring freeze at least until July.
To top it all off, activist shareholder (or corporate raider, depending on your opinion) Carl Icahn, who back in May purchased 15 million shares of Yahoo in an attempt to shakeup the board, had finally started posting on his long-awaited blog—The Icahn Report. And does he have a lot to say. While no one CEO is named in his diatribes, Icahn's rant about the "absurdity of the poison pill" and a few other posts are obviously directed at Yahoo under Yang. Not that he's attempting to thinly veil who his comments are directed at—just a week ago he said, given the chance, he'd hire a "talented and experience" CEO at Yahoo.
Set your countdown clocks, because it sounds like Yang's days at Yahoo may truly be numbered.

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