Ash Patel, a senior Yahoo exec and one of the company’s longest serving employees, will shortly be stepping down. His last day will be next Monday.
Patel was one of Yahoo’s first sixty employees, and joined shortly before the company went public in April 1996. There are just six current Yahoo employees who joined before Patel, the company says.
His first job at Yahoo was “technical Yahoo,” a title given to all engineers. He created the My Yahoo product and also built Yahoo’s first instant messenger client. He stopped coding for a living in 2002 and has since been in a series of product and engineering executive positions.
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