Yahoo Loses One Of Their Top Deal Guys – One More Exec Gone
The fact Yahoo is now losing deal guys isn’t necessarily a sign of good or bad news in particular. In 2007, Yahoo Director of Corporate Development Michael Marquez left Yahoo to become the Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development for CBS Interactive (he was recently promoted to EVP). It may just be that Goldman was given an offer to go somewhere else that he couldn’t refuse.
Update: Interestingly Kent recently joined the ever-growing Yahoo Alumni group on Facebook, and a couple days earlier he became a fan of First Round Capital. We’ll be contacting them to see if he has any connection to the firm.
Update 2: We have confirmed that Kent is joining First Round Capital.
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