It would be worthwhile to read Paul Graham's essay now, if you haven't already done so: "what happened to Yahoo"[1] The thing that jumps out at me is the lack

It would be worthwhile to read Paul Graham's essay now, if you haven't already done so: "what happened to Yahoo"[1] The thing that jumps out at me is the lack of "hacker" culture at Yahoo. Sure, they have a few really smart people there; but the culture is missing. As long as this is the case, Yahoo will continue to wander aimlessly. Marissa (or the next CEO) would do well to work on putting together a hacker culture, and get rid of most of the PMs, Directors and VPs. Yahoo is too management-heavy, and hacker-light. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html