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Going back on my time-machine, I recall when she was first hired. Silicon Valley was abuzz with excitement, thinking Yahoo would once again become a tech-jugge
by phantom_oracle 11y ago
Going back on my time-machine, I recall when she was first hired.
Silicon Valley was abuzz with excitement, thinking Yahoo would once again become a tech-juggernaut that it once was, competing with Facebook, Google, etc.
Truth be told, the previous CEOs geared up the company to be more like Buzzfeed than like Google, making Yahoo a media company.
Granted, Yahoo would never be in the same circles as the common tech-juggernauts, but this is the natural evolution of companies.
Monsanto once used to make poison, now they force their fake-seeds to feed the world.
Deep down, we all wanted Yahoo to go back to being something, afterall, it was a cool company once upon a long 1990s time ago, but Mayer was probably the worst hire of them all.
In the end, it doesn't matter though. She has a vested interest somewhere north of US200million and her failure at Yahoo will be celebrated when Twitter hires her as "Head of UX" once someone like Carl Icahn buys Yahoo shares to spinoff Alibaba faster and then spinoff: Yahoo Finance (Bloomberg), Flickr(Facebook), etc.
- sjg007 11y agoNah, she'll become a VC.