Lloyd Braun on his 'stupid questions' at Yahoo!

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By Brian Morrissey

Hollywood exec Lloyd Braun had a memorable run as content impresario at Yahoo! from 2004 to 2006. When he was hired, he was heralded as the marriage of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. His short tenure ended up being a cameo in the long slide suffered by Yahoo! Braun came in promising the I Love Lucy of the Web and ended up leaving after internal backbiting, including a memorable profile that claimed he tried to get the company to give him a plane and berated a gift-store employee over an umbrella.

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