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It's interesting how fast the narrative shifted, about one year ago i was reading a long in depth article here on HN on how Marissa Mayer was out to transform Y
by slashink 11y ago
It's interesting how fast the narrative shifted, about one year ago i was reading a long in depth article here on HN on how Marissa Mayer was out to transform Yahoo into a company fit for 2015 and how she was succeeding. Fast forward 1 year later and the articles are mainly about how Yahoo is failing.
What does this tell me? I don't know really, is it hard to transform a company like Yahoo? Probably. Is the media surrounding tech and startup culture way to fast to draw conclusions, for sure.
- dexterdog 11y agoWell it is 2016 now and boards get fickle.
- dhimes 11y agoIt honestly means that nobody really knows what they are talking about. Every time somebody comes up with a "rule" or a pithy slogan, somebody else comes along and falsifies it.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoIt's more likely to tell you that journalism is a dead art.
- hanniabu 11y agoIf I remember correctly, a lot of comments on those articles were claiming that those changes wouldn't fix the sinking ship and that it seemed like they were flailing actions with no thought really put into it.
- slashink 11y agoActually you are right. I remeber this also, people seem to have catched on. Although my question is probably more aimed against the media endlessly throwing articles of this cycle out.
- gozur88 11y agoI don't remember too many articles saying she was succeeding. I do remember a handful that said something along the lines of "She has a really tough job ahead of her," along with "Nobody knows what Yahoo does any more," and "Even people at Yahoo don't know what Yahoo does." I do remember articles congratulating her for ending telecommuting, but I think that was more a symptom of management failure than anything else.