The heart of the matter
"Yahoo wants to do breakthrough software," Gates told CNET News.com. "The engineers there want to compete very effectively against Google or any other thing that comes along, so I don't think there is really a different culture."
But, he hinted that the company might have made itself less attractive had it continued down the path championed by former CEO Terry Semel.
"If Yahoo had gone the direction of just being a media company and not said that software innovation was important to them then no, there wouldn't be that intersection because we're about breakthrough software," Gates said. "Jerry Yang to his credit has kept a lot of very top engineers that have been just doing their work and improving those things. That's why we see the combination as so powerful."
Gates on Yahoo: It's the people | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News.com
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