Madhu Yarlagadda, who joined Skype as Chief Development Officer last month, has left the company. Generally speaking executives don't leave a startup as it jumps into the IPO process, and they certainly don't leave after just a month on the job. Yarlagadda was previously a VP Engineering, Messenger, at Yahoo.
The New York Times says he left after scathing comments on TechCrunch about his new role at Skype came to the attention of Skype executives. The post they're referring to has dozens of extremely detailed negative comments about Yarlagadda, although we've deleted the worst of them. That level of uniform negativity was unprecedented in our experience.
In the past we've occasionally wholesale deleted negative comments about an individual, particularly since most of these comments tend to be anonymous. But in this case we were threatened with legal action by his wife almost immediately as the comments started flowing:
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