Yahoo Refugees? Hillary Clinton To Save American Dream for Silicon Valley
The Web world is shell shocked: Yahoo’s ranks are shrinking.
Who says the two Silicons aren’t one big happy family, though? Fred Wilson. BUT, that was last week’s “news”!
The New York City-based Union Square Ventures blogger screwed up his Silicon Valley headline rant–wrongly calling out a fellow Silion Alley chap for West coast arrogance–and STILL believes he nailed a bi-coastal tech angst problem.
SEE: Why Silicon Alley VCs Should Do Blogging Due Diligence, Too
Today’s mutual outpouring of tech love from both sides of the Web aisle for Yahoos, however, must surely warm even a grisled venture capitalist’s heart, as not so cold hearted entrepreneurs in both Silicons embrace the poor, displaced huddled masses of Jerry Yang refugees.
From sea to shining sea–and even from Canada–the feeding freenzy over the still warm Yahoos’ blood is fevered: “Wanted: Yahoo Product Managers” and “Why canned Yahoo employees should come talk to me,” and “Memo to YHOO Staffers: Looking for a Few Good People.”
While the reaching out is touching, offers from fledging, bootstrap ventures may very well NOT be compelling to the once coddled Yahoos!
Yahoos may take comfort though that there is someone looking out for them, a woman so determined that she is staking her very future on making sure all can continue to live the American dream, even laid off Yahoos!
Who says President Clinton’s wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is old school? Is the American dream EVER outdated?
In what may be hailed as HER comeback (old) kid speech, Ms. Clinton rallied the El Paso troops last evening with a Texas sized cry to keep the dream alive and well, in America, under her watch:
What I think this election is about…It is about what kind of country and world we’re going to pass on…Are we going to give the same shot at the American dream that many of us were given? Well, if we make the right decision in this election, we sure are. We’re going to give not only confidence and optimism, but real results, 21st-century solutions for what we need to do to fix our problems, meet our challenges, and seize our opportunities.
Hillary may even have been thinking of the soon to be left out in the cold Yahoos when she hailed:
There isn’t anything America can’t do if we make up our minds to do it. Every once of us, every single one of us knows that tomorrow can be better than today, but it doesn’t happen just by wishing it or hoping for it. It happens by working really, really hard to make it a reality to give everybody a better chance.
I see an America where everyone willing to work hard has a job with a rising income.
SO, Yahoos: The sun will come out tomorrow, and there may be another Clinton in the White House next year!
Above all, remember, there isn’t anything ex-Yahoos can’t do if they make up their minds to do it.
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