Yahoo! announced today that I will be their CEO of India Research and Development. Why am I joining Yahoo!?
More than anything else, it’s to make in-market product incubation succeed. I believe that in-market incubation will be the key to unlocking the next wave of growth in emerging markets.
The other reason is to do with cloud computing. Yahoo! has the potential to be a significant player here. I hope to be actively involved in this too.
Yahoo! has built a strong team in India. Its got talent, depth and critical mass. I’m excited to be part of it.
I’ll keep blogging as before. I like the fact that it forces me to set aside time to reflect on industry issues and tees off valuable conversations about where we are all going. Of course, everything that I say here continues to be my own personal views and opinions, and not that of Yahoo! That distinction is important to make in these new circumstances. Also, I would like to point out that you won’t see any breaking news on Yahoo! here; there are better places you can go to read about that.
All the best Sharad! Funny that you had to point this announcement to another internet news source and not Yahoo India portal (where there is no mention about it, even in the technology section)
Sharad this is great news, congratulations and best wishes!
I think from now on, you will be more of Y-rising rather then YEGA-rising from now on, but we will understand. It is really fun reading your blog roll.
Congratulations on your new job, Sharad! Wish you success.
Congratulations Sharad. All the best taking Yahoo India ahead.
Dear Sharad,
Great news!!!!!!!!
All the very best and hoping to see the “Orbit Change” at Yahoo!.
Good luck. Hope your blogs will remain the same!!!!
Best Wishes,
Arun.PC
Congratulation and best wishes For your new carrier,
We all are happy and get indepth view of market and technologies, For future of india as well as us
milan shah
Dear Sharad,
This is really great news. I wish all the best in your next exiting (yahoo - means excitement too) assignment.
Regards,
Santosh Gurlahosur
Congratulations and all the best for the future. I will be honest in admitting my fascination for Google and their way of running a company/business.. Wishing u all the best in making Yahoo India, or for that matter Yahoo itself, the trend setters of the future..
:-)
Kumar Rangarajan
S7 Solutions.
Sharad, Congratulations, its good to know that you are back in the main stream.
Goodluck.
Great news Sharad. Wish you the very best in your new job.
Congratulation Sharad.
Sharad:
congratulations!!! great news. All the best for the new position.
Ankur
Hello Sharad, Congratulations and best wishes.
That’s good news! All the best, Sharad!
Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com
Hi Sharad,
I am a little late to put my congratulatory note here. However
the delay does not indicate, in any way, the importance that
I attach to this development. It is quite interesting that
you have decided to join Yahoo!, a behemoth in the industry.
Is the chance of success of in-market incubation higher when
driven from within a large organisation with ample resources
available to it? I will look forward to your future blogs
to find an answer to that question. Also, in one of your
future blogs, could you also please elaborate on Cloud
Computing, and how start-ups can participate in that area to
bring in value.
Congratulations once again, and I am sure you are going to succeed
to leave us all appreciating.
Warm regards
Nirmalya
Hello Sharad,
It’s must have been pretty hectic first year at Yahoo! India and rightly so with all the recent developments.
If you can recollect from your memory, you had arranged a session on Global Development Centre from Dipendra Moitra.
Is there anyway I can get some base framework material on setting up ‘Extended Development Centre’.
I have been reading your blog since I came to know about it.
Thanks
Dhananjay
98600-93921
I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100%, but it’s just my opinion, which could be wrong.