第一篇：杨致远的辞职信
杨致远的辞职信
杨致远的辞职信出乎意料地非常简短。以下是杨致远发送给雅虎董事长罗伊·博斯托克（roy bostock）的辞职信：
尊敬的罗伊：
我写此信是通知你，我在此辞去雅虎董事会董事的职位，并辞去我在雅虎担任的其它职位，从2014年1月17日起生效。
我在雅虎的时光，从公司创办到如今，是我一生当中最令人激动、最有意义的经历。然而，现在是我寻求雅虎以外其它乐趣的时候了。在我离开这家我在将近17年前亲自创办的公司之时，我非常高兴能够由斯科特·汤普森（scott thompson）来担任雅虎首席执行官，并与整个雅虎管理团队一起带领公司走向精彩而成功的未来。
您诚挚的，
杨致远
第二篇：杨致远致雅虎员工的辞职信
杨致远致雅虎员工的辞职信和英俊的男人握握手，和深刻的男人谈谈心，和成功的男人多交流，和普通的男人过日子。to: all yahoos
fr: jerry
subject: update
yahoos -
i wanted to address all of you on the news we've just announced. the board of directors and i have agreed to initiate a succession process for the ceo role of yahoo!. roy bostock, our chairman of the board, is leading the effort to identify and assess potential candidates for consideration by the full board. the board will be evaluating and considering both internal and external candidates and has retained heidrick and struggles to help in this effort.
i will be participating in the search for my successor, and i will continue as ceo until the board selects a new ceo. once a successor is named, i will return to my previous role as chief yahoo and continue to serve as a director on the board.
last june, i accepted the board's request that i assume the ceo role to restructure and reposition the company as a whole in order to more effectively meet the fast-changing needs of both users and partners. since taking on the ceo role, i have had an ongoing dialogue with the board about succession timing. thanks in large measure to your tireless efforts, we have created a more open, competitive yahoo! and we believe the time is now right to transition to a new ceo who can take the company to the next level.
despite the external environment we face, the fact remains that yahoo! is now a significantly different company that is stronger in many ways than it was just 18 months ago. this only makes it all the more essential that we manage this opportunity to leverage the progress up to this point as effectively as possible. i strongly believe that having transformed our platform and better aligned costs and revenues, we have a unique window for the right ceo to take ownership over the next wave of mission-critical decisions facing the company.
all of you know that i have always, and will always bleed purple. i will always do what i think is right for this great company. while this step will be an adjustment for all of us, i know it's the right one. i look forward to updating you on this process as soon as the board has developments to share, and will continue to do everything i can to make yahoo! fulfill its full potential.
thank you,
jerry
辞职信全文（中文版）
致：全体雅虎员工
自：杰瑞（杨致远英文名）
雅虎员工们：
我将告知你们大家我们刚刚宣布的一条消息：董事会成员和我已经达成协议，将发起一项雅虎ceo职位的继任程序。我们的董事会主席罗伊·博斯托克（roy bostock）将根据全体董事会成员的考虑，领导大家确定并评估可能的人选。董事会将评估并考虑公司内部及外部人选，并聘请著名猎头公司heidrick & struggles来帮助我们。
我也会参与到候选人的搜寻中，而且在继任者未确定之前我还将继续担任雅虎公司ceo.一旦新任ceo人选确定，我将会回到以前“雅虎酋长”（chief yahoo）的位子并将继续以董事会成员的身份为雅虎服务。
去年6月，我接受董事会的请求担任ceo一职，负责对雅虎进行重组及公司进行重新定位，以便使得雅虎以更高的效率应对用户和合作伙伴快速变化的需求。自从我担任ceo以来，我就与董事会就继任时间进行了持续的对话。感谢你们孜孜不倦的努力，我们已经创造了一个更加开放且更具竞争力的雅虎。因此，我认为现在已经是时候把ceo的职位让给能够带领公司迈上新台阶的人的时候了。
尽管我们面临的外部环境不容乐观，但是雅虎已经与18个月前有了很大的不同，在很多方面也已经变得更加强大。因此我们更有必要利用目前的机会使公司的运营尽可能有效。我坚定的相信，通过平台的转变、成本和营收状况的重新梳理，我们将能够为新任ceo提供一个独特的窗口，以便他能够更好的接管雅虎，并在今后面临问题时，为公司制定关键性的决策。
正如你们大家所知，我一直、并且将永远流淌着紫色（雅虎的代表色）的血液。对这家伟大的公司来说，我将永远做我认为正确的事情。尽管我此次的卸任会对所有人都产生一定的影响，但是我知道这是一个正确的抉择。在这一过程中，一旦董事会有所进展，我将及时通知你们，我也将继续尽我所能让雅虎发挥出最大的潜力。
谢谢
杨致远
第三篇：杨致远致雅虎员工的辞职信
to: all yahoos
fr: jerry
subject: update
yahoos -
i wanted to address all of you on the news we've just announced. the board of directors and i have agreed to initiate a succession process for the ceo role of yahoo!. roy bostock, our chairman of the board, is leading the effort to identify and assess potential candidates for consideration by the full board. the board will be evaluating and considering both internal and external candidates and has retained heidrick and struggles to help in this effort.
i will be participating in the search for my successor, and i will continue as ceo until the board selects a new ceo. once a successor is named, i will return to my previous role as chief yahoo and continue to serve as a director on the board.
last june, i accepted the board's request that i assume the ceo role to restructure and reposition the company as a whole in order to more effectively meet the fast-changing needs of both users and partners. since taking on the ceo role, i have had an ongoing dialogue with the board about succession timing. thanks in large measure to your tireless efforts, we have created a more open, competitive yahoo! and we believe the time is now right to transition to a new ceo who can take the company to the next level.
despite the external environment we face, the fact remains that yahoo! is now a significantly different company that is stronger in many ways than it was just 18 months ago. this only makes it all the more essential that we manage this opportunity to leverage the progress up to this point as effectively as possible. i strongly believe that having transformed our platform and better aligned costs and revenues, we have a unique window for the right ceo to take ownership over the next wave of mission-critical decisions facing the company.
all of you know that i have always, and will always bleed purple. i will always do what i think is right for this great company. while this step will be an adjustment for all of us, i know it's the right one. i look forward to updating you on this process as soon as the board has developments to share, and will continue to do everything i can to make yahoo! fulfill its full potential.
thank you,
jerry
辞职信全文（中文版）
致：全体雅虎员工
自：杰瑞（杨致远英文名）
雅虎员工们：
我将告知你们大家我们刚刚宣布的一条消息：董事会成员和我已经达成协议，将发起一项雅虎ceo职位的继任程序。我们的董事会主席罗伊·博斯托克（roy bostock）将根据全体董事会成员的考虑，领导大家确定并评估可能的人选。董事会将评估并考虑公司内部及外部人选，并聘请著名猎头公司heidrick & struggles来帮助我们。
我也会参与到候选人的搜寻中，而且在继任者未确定之前我还将继续担任雅虎公司ceo.一旦新任ceo人选确定，我将会回到以前“雅虎酋长”（chief yahoo）的位子并将继续以董事会成员的身份为雅虎服务。
去年6月，我接受董事会的请求担任ceo一职，负责对雅虎进行重组及公司进行重新定位，以便使得雅虎以更高的效率应对用户和合作伙伴快速变化的需求。自从我担任ceo以来，我就与董事会就继任时间进行了持续的对话。感谢你们孜孜不倦的努力，我们已经创造了一个更加开放且更具竞争力的雅虎。因此，我认为现在已经是时候把ceo的职位让给能够带领公司迈上新台阶的人的时候了。
尽管我们面临的外部环境不容乐观，但是雅虎已经与18个月前有了很大的不同，在很多方面也已经变得更加强大。因此我们更有必要利用目前的机会使公司的运营尽可能有效。我坚定的相信，通过平台的转变、成本和营收状况的重新梳理，我们将能够为新任ceo提供一个独特的窗口，以便他能够更好的接管雅虎，并在今后面临问题时，为公司制定关键性的决策。
正如你们大家所知，我一直、并且将永远流淌着紫色（雅虎的代表色）的血液。对这家伟大的公司来说，我将永远做我认为正确的事情。尽管我此次的卸任会对所有人都产生一定的影响，但是我知道这是一个正确的抉择。在这一过程中，一旦董事会有所进展，我将及时通知你们，我也将继续尽我所能让雅虎发挥出最大的潜力。
谢谢
杨致远
第四篇：雅虎ceo杨致远关于雅虎的演讲
speech on yahoo
雅虎ceo杨致远关于雅虎的演讲
jerry yang
we always talk about the internet a lot, and people always come to me and say, "jerry, what is the big deal about the internet?" and i always try to tell them with some numbers and statistics of what is happening on the internet. at the end of 1997, there are about 70 million users on the internet on the worldwide bases, and by the end of this year it will be over 100 million. and this is from a very rapid growth in 1995. there was less than 30 million people on the internet, and you can see that in the net last three years it has grown very, very fast and very, very rapidly. the internet is very interesting because it is a platform for information, for business, for commerce and for content. and this is a very interactive medium. it is the only interactive medium that allows you to do all these things. we have really seen a tremendous growth within the united states on the internet media. and what we are going to see in the future is that the growth outside of the u.s. is going to be much more rapid, much faster, especially in countries like china, in asia and in europe. i have to say how important it is to have an interactive medium because the ability for users like yourself to interact with the internet to have a dialogue, to experience, is what makes the internet very, very unique. there is really no other way that can allow you to experience content, commerce and do business like internet. and this is why i would think that it is very, very important for not only businesses, but also users to get on to internet and start using it as a way of getting their information and making their life easier.
a lot of people called yahoo a search engine, and i always have to sort of say that we are more than a search engine. in fact what we have become is a very powerful brand. over 30 million users on the every month use yahoo in the united states. we have tremendous amount of recognition and trust. one of the key things that we have established is every time somebody uses yahoo we call that a page view. every month we do over two billion page views and that is becoming quite a way of life for a lot of people on internet. we really appeal to the individual users. we have a lot of people that use yahoo when they are at work, and we have a lot of people that use yahoo when they get home at night. and what we are doing is also expanding very rapidly around the world. we have numerous yahoo versions in europe, in asia, in australia, and we are always expanding, hoping to do more. the key for yahoo, as many of you know, is a directory structure and its navigational guide. we have over 900,000 web sites in the us underneath of a few hundreds, thousand categories, and we have over 300 content relationships that we have with major media companies, content companies. and we are always to build, provide users, and consumers, some business solutions to help them find things on their net, to help them shop for something on the internet, and help them to find information or even other people that they want to contact and communicate with.
a lot of people ask me, "how do you make money?" "what is the business behind yahoo?" and what are the things we tried to do is have a very partnership-oriented approach. so we have a lot of partners, and our business model is based on the advertising business model. when you use yahoo you will see a lot of banner advertising that is on top of the pages, and those are paid advertising that we receive for people to display their messages to our users. so this is, i feel, very similar to broadcasting and other kind of media where the user can use the service for free. many
of you know yahoo is a free product, but we get money from the advertisers who want to reach our users.
我们总是大量地谈论 internet，人们也总来问我：“jerry，什么是 internet 的大交易？”我总是试图告诉他们一些有关 internet 的统计数据。在 1997 年年底，全球范围内有 7000 万 internet 用户，到今年年底，这个数字将突破 1 亿。这种快速的增长从 1995 年便已开始，当时 internet 用户只有 3000 万，你们可以看到在过去三年 internet 用户的增长非常非常迅速。internet 非常有趣，因为它是一种非常广泛的平台，包括信息、交易、商业和娱乐，同时还是一种非常交互的媒体。它也是允许你做所有这些事情的唯一交互式媒体。我们已确实看到了 internet 媒体在美国的巨大增长。并且我们看到未来在美国之外的增长将会更加迅速，特别是在中国，在亚洲还有欧洲。我得说一种交互式的媒体对于我们来说非常重要，因为这样一种媒体允许你与之对话，而正是这种体验使得 internet 非常非常特别。确实没有其它的途径使你能够得到在 internet 上的这种娱乐、商业和交易方式。这就是为什么我觉得 internet 如此重要，不仅是对于商业，它还可以使用户们上网后得到他们所需的信息，生活更为舒适。
很多人把 yahoo 称作搜索引擎，我却要说我们不仅仅是搜索引擎。事实上我们已经成为一个非常强大的品牌，在美国每个月有超过 3000 万的用户使用 yahoo。我们广为人知并值得信赖。我们把每一次用户对 yahoo 的使用称作一次“page view”。每个月我们有超过 20 亿次的“page view”，这已经差不多成为许多网上用户的生活方式了。我们对于个人用户极具吸引力。我们不仅拥有许多用户在工作时使用 yahoo，还有许多人晚上在家里使用 yahoo，而我们正在做的是向全球范围迅速扩张。我们在欧洲、亚洲、澳大利亚有很多版本的 yahoo，我们一直在扩张，并且希望能够做得更多。你们很多人都知道，yahoo 的关键是它的目录结构和浏览指南。在上十万个类别下我们有 90 多万个美国网点。我们与主要的媒体公司及信息公司有超过 300 个的合作信息关系。我们一直在为用户和消费者建造并提供一些商业能力，帮助他们在网上找到所需的东西，并进行网上购物。我们还帮助他们寻找信息甚至是他们想联系的人。
许多人问我：“你们如何赚钱？”“yahoo 背后的商业机制是什么？”我们极力去做的是建立面向 internet 访问的广泛合作关系。我们有许多合作伙伴，我们商业模式的基础是广告商业模式。当你使用 yahoo 的时候，在页面的顶端你会看到很多广告，那些是收费广告，我们要把他们的广告词显示给我们的用户。因此我想这与广播或其它媒体是类似的，用户都是免费得到服务。大家都知道 yahoo 是免费使用，但是我们要从广告客户哪里赚取利润。
第五篇：yahoo与杨致远的故事(2)
yahoo与杨致远的故事（2）
3. 轻松取得资料
这正是雅虎的独特和天才之处：轻轻松松就能寻得有趣的资料，而它的这套方法还没有其他搜索服务曾真正复制过。因为即使网络上还是有许多强有力的搜索网站，它们相较于雅虎都属于高自动化。大部分的搜索服务是以关键字作为处理的资料（例如：windsurfing或ashkelon），并且死板地从网站和网页中是否包含这些字来辨明相关性。虽然较好的关键字搜索服务曾以独特的方法改善搜索过程，但它们本质上仍依靠机器。而雅虎本身却是人类精心设计的结晶。
雅虎的独特处使它成为网络上最具影响力的霸主之一。自有雅虎之名的两年内，他们的网站每星期就已为数百万计的使用者提供成千上万的网页。据估计，雅虎的上站率是同类竞争者的两倍以上，在庞大的网景系统上的占有率超过一半。雅虎同时吸引超过三百家付费广告商。而雅虎服务内容的不断扩充，使用率及赞助商急速增加。雅虎从原来一个简单的网站指南，已蓬勃发展成各式信息的汇集地，包括新闻报导、股市行情、气象报告、电话号码及交互式地图等。
4. 流行趋势的探测器
欣欣向荣的雅虎，俨然成为流行趋势的探测器。凭着超强的搜索功能，雅虎能够掌握网络脉动，了解使用者的兴趣与期望。这种对网络进化的独到见解，有助于及早发展出迎合趋势的新站台及服务。而雅虎对国际互联网进展的特有观点，促使它率先推出针对特殊群体及地域所设计的雅虎连锁网站。雅虎同时还将触角伸展至其他媒体，现在已出版雅虎丛书、雅虎杂志，以及数个电视节目。而这一切的发展，不得不让致远把雅虎定位成媒体公司而不是科技公司。
虽说如此，致远和大卫当初建立简陋的网站目录时，可没想过有一天会像维康集团（viacom）成为多元化的经营王国。当初的想法和现今的成果可差了十万八千里。他们原先想的是，在当时还是这么小的网络上，找个资料已是困难多多，如果能为自己和一些朋友解决这个小问题，那该有多好。下一步则是，能做些不同于学校的事情，让生活有些不同，该会多棒。从这点来看，雅虎源于个人嗜好，而非商业计划下的产品──虽然致远初到硅谷时，曾含糊地思考过商业利机。但来到硅谷并不全是他的想法，而一切可回溯至雅虎创办前的十五年。
杨致远在台湾出生。两岁时，父亲去世，他和他的弟弟是由担任英文及戏剧教授的母亲抚养长大的，他母亲带着这两个小男孩举家迁往美国加州，以便寻求更好的成长环境，并和居住在当地的姊妹相依为命。杨致远回忆：“人人都说美国机会多，但当时可没人想到机会会大到如雅虎一般。”十岁时，杨致远举家定居在加州圣荷西市。他坚称那时他是懒人一个，但学业表现却相当优秀。刚到美国时他曾度过一段学习黑暗期（第一天上课时所知道的英文单字只有“鞋子”这一个字）。但在一九九○年，却以优异的成绩申请进入离家不远的斯坦福大学。
5. 合作无间的伙伴
初入大学时，杨致远就修了艰深但却乐在其中的电机课程。更被“硅谷是工程师建造出来的，而斯坦福居功厥伟”这句话打动。最后，他果然选择主修电机工程。致远的弟弟和哥哥一样都志在成为电机工程师，他们甚至连博士研究计划的主题都有志一同。
虽然活跃于课外活动，致远只花四年就完成了学士及硕士学位。快毕业时，他不免也试了几个合适的工作机会，但他很快就发觉自己还未准备好出社会工作。他回忆说：“我有硕士学历，但欠缺经验或成熟度，那时才二十一岁，心根本都还没定下来，所以我决定继续待在学校。”而幸运地，似乎也是命中注定，当他终于发现自己适合从事研究工作时，大卫·费罗也因从事研究计划而留在学校。
致远和费罗是旧识，费罗比致远早进入电机这领域，他一九八八年即毕业于杜兰大学。而且，他还曾当过致远的助教（一向全拿“ａ”的致远，至今仍会发牢骚：“他居然给我个ｂ”）。他们也做过好
几堂课的同班同学，还曾一起合作过某堂课的作业。致远回忆道：“多亏费罗，这份作业几乎是他独自完成，我根本没做什么事。所以从那时起，我就知道以后要多跟这家伙合作。”
当然自此之后，致远就“常和这家伙合作”。很快地，两人成了合作无间的最佳拍档，致远在团体中常是领导者，而费罗很内敛、喜沉思。若以科技智囊形容致远，那么费罗可称做科技天才。费罗就是那个将屏幕上资料条理规划的人，不论是潜藏在网络的缝隙中或在个人系统的档案内，他总有办法发现、处理、甚至控制它（那是种“只要在终端机前，我就能统治全世界”的感觉）。
但走进费罗常留宿的实验室，真令人觉得像个被暴风肆虐的城市。致远正好相反，他的住所倒还干净。但在操控电脑上，他就不如费罗来得有规划及控制力。由于费罗似乎都是透过上网来充实才智，致远也就开始积极地建立自己的网络地图。