Updated: It’s Official: Jeff Weiner Leaving Yahoo For Accel, Greylock; Reports Go To Decker For Now
It didn’t come from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), of course: Accel Partners and Greylock Partners jointly announced that Jeff Weiner is joining the two VC firms as an EIR, an unusual co-op position for both firms. His new role becomes effective in early September 2008. He will divide his time equally between the Accel and Greylock Silicon Valley offices.
Weiner will “advise the leadership teams of existing Accel and Greylock consumer technology portfolio companies, and will also work closely with the firm
Why not? If you don't do well at Yahoo you automatically become qualified to run a company!