Yeah, watching it back just now I surprised myself a bit that I mentioned Dennis Crowley for CEO of Yahoo! ($YHOO)
But then again, why not?
First of all, he is awesome and has built a great company in Foursquare while Yahoo! is starving for vision and a bold initiative.
Second, he will understand as well as anyone or better how to socialize the site and reward optimal user behaviors.
Third, the price to buy out talent like Twitter’s Costolo is much too high (Yahoo! would likely have to buy Foursquare to get Crowley).
Paddy Power, the giant Irish book maker has Crowley at 9 to 1 odds for next Yahoo! CEO well behind favorite and Yahoo! exec Ross Levinsohn but not the long shot by any means so perhaps it is not so crazy after all…
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