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How Peanut Butter Lured Icahn to Yahoo!
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They say that a butterfly flapping its wings in Asia can start a hurricane in West Africa.
Hurricane Carl arrived on the doorsteps of Yahoo!'s(YHOO Quote) offices Thursday, complete with his slate of 10 nominees to unseat Yahoo!'s entire board at the July 3 annual meeting. (And Icahn's entrance is no longer the latest twist in the Microhoo saga, as Microsoft approached Yahoo! with a new proposal on Sunday.)
The butterfly who started the chain of events that led to this is Brad Garlinghouse, a senior Yahoo! executive who penned the "Peanut Butter Manifesto" in November 2006.
Someone, not Brad himself, leaked the memo to Kevin Delaney of the Wall Street Journal and it put all of Yahoo!'s dirty laundry on the front page. ...
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