Seeing as it's the absolute last day of 2007, I can still say the following: "Yahoo has lost how many executives this year?"
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]The latest to jump ship is Steve Souders, Chief Performance Yahoo. And of all the places to leave Yahoo for, Souders is headed to Google, according to Alley Insider. That's a change from the most of the other Yahoo execs we saw depart in the past few months. Others like Jacki Kelly, Matthew Heist, and Cammie Dunaway have left Yahoo for more interesting ventures with smaller companies and a corporate challenge that doesn't involve saving Yahoo from itself.
Souders, who had been with Yahoo since 2000, is moving from one large corporation to another. Google's been having its own problems holding on to execs, with some leaving for fresh blood at Facebook, and even having helped raised the question of too much stock too early potentially leading to an inability to hold onto good executives. After Yahoo tried switching its executives around on its own terms, some Yahoo execs took matters into their own hands (a.k.a. "saw the writing on the wall and found new jobs").