美国在线前高管布拉德•加林豪斯入主YouSendIt

    十年前，美国在线（AOL）前高管布拉德•加林豪斯曾掌舵过一家新创企业，而现在时光轮转，他又重新回到了原点。加林豪斯此次将加盟文件传送和分享公司YouSendIt，出任首席执行官。

    加林豪斯于去年12月离开美国在线，虽然此前有人推测他可能会进入投资领域，因为加林豪斯在这些年里投资了不少新创企业，还曾短暂担任过银湖私募股权公司（Silver Lake Partners）的高级顾问，但加林豪斯最终选择了潜力巨大的YouSendIt。

    YouSendIt位于加州坎贝尔市，自2003年成立以来，已经募集到超过4800万美元的风险投资，该公司预计今年收益将超过6000万美元，同比去年增幅高达61%。YouSendIt声称其拥有超过3000万注册用户，其中付费用户接近60万。每日新注册用户达到3万人。鉴于在过去近8年时间里，加林豪斯一直挣扎在两家深陷泥潭的技术公司（美国在线和雅虎），这次他选择一家身家清白的新创企业也就不足为奇了。

    加林豪斯向《财富》（Fortune）表示“我不想成为逆流而上的大马哈鱼，我过去在美国在线所经历的已经够多了。”（加林豪斯并未排除摇摇欲坠的美国在线有东山再起的可能性。）“不过要问我是否认为自己能为YouSendIt或是美国在线创造数十亿美元的价值？毫无疑问，这是一定的。”加林豪斯并未透露自己会为YouSendIt制定哪些战略，他倒是大谈特谈自己正在积极进行招聘活动，将为 YouSendIt招聘210名左右新员工。

    时至今日，大家可能都还记得加林豪斯的“花生酱宣言”。2006年，时任雅虎高级副总裁的加林豪斯发出一封公司范围的备忘录。在这份甜心先生风格的备忘录中，加林豪斯批评雅虎缺乏远见、责任心和决策力，对资源分配不当，就像在面包上抹花生酱一样，虽然很多，但非常稀薄。2009年，加林豪斯离开雅虎，受蒂姆•阿姆斯特朗邀请，加盟位于帕洛阿尔托的美国在线产品导向部担任主管。

    译者：项航

    More than a decade since Brad Garlinghouse helmed a start-up, the ex-AOL president is in, a way, coming full circle. Only this time, he's joining the file-sending and sharing company YouSendIt as CEO.

    Though some had speculated he might go the investor route after his departure from AOL (AOL) last December -- Garlinghouse has invested in several startups over the years and served a brief stint as senior advisor at Silver Lake Partners -- he attributes his new role to the company's quiet growth.

    The Campbell, California-based YouSendIt, which has raised over $48 million venture capital funding since being founded in 2003, is expected to surpass $60 million in revenue this year, a 61% increase over 2011. The company reports 30 million-plus registered users, nearly 600,000 of which pay. Some 30,000 new users sign up daily. And given that Garlinghouse has spent nearly 8 years at two big struggling tech companies -- AOL and Yahoo (YHOO) -- it's not a huge surprise he wants a clean slate to work with.

    "I didn't want to be the salmon swimming upstream, and I think AOL was an experience with a lot of upstream swimming," Garlinghouse told Fortune. (He doesn't rule out the possibility that a struggling AOL may still turn itself around.) "But do I think I can create a billion dollars of value with YouSendIt or AOL? No question. There's no contest." Garlinghouse would not discuss specifics of his strategy for the company other than to say he's actively recruiting to add to the startup's team of 210 or so employees.

    To this day, Garlinghouse may best be remembered in some circles as the former Yahoo senior vice president who sent out the Jerry Maguire-esque "Peanut Butter Manifesto" in 2006, an office-wide memo that chastised Yahoo for lacking vision, accountability and decisiveness, comparing the company's resource spending to spreading peanut butter (thinly) on a slice of bread. In 2009, he was recruited by Tim Armstrong to head AOL's products-driven offices in Palo Alto.