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I think Mayer has done a fantastic job in improving the reputation of yahoo. I still have a yahoo mail (that I give when I am affraid of spam). Since she is CEO

by reacweb 11y ago

I think Mayer has done a fantastic job in improving the reputation of yahoo. I still have a yahoo mail (that I give when I am affraid of spam). Since she is CEO, the experience has improved a lot. The yahoo news are not too bad, ... Transforming reputation in good money takes a lot of time. IMHO, the investors should give trust and time to Mayer before expected results. If they fire Mayer, yahoo will be dead and they will lose everything. For me, the main handicap of yahoo is their cupid investors.

douche 11y ago
I wouldn't say that Yahoo's reputation has improved over the last few years... In my mind, they have gone from a completely forgotten also-ran of an earlier era of the internet, to an example of Keystone Cops-level bumbling.
dhimes 11y ago
I'm a paying customer of Yahoo, and I'm honestly stressing whether or not I'm going to be SOL. They've changed their store/web merchant stuff, and I don't know if they off-loaded it or not (they call it a re-brand). But I had to make a new login. And for the love of God it's been 6 years and I still can't put a link to "Small business" on my "personal" page's sidebar. I mean, what the fuck? I have to have a personal bookmark, and now the link has changed to something I'll never remember if I'm at a computer other than this one. Ugh. Yes, I am losing confidence.
TheOtherHobbes 11y ago
If they fire Mayer, Yahoo will probably be sold and they'll get something back before the value tanks. Mayer doesn't need more time. She's a competent middle manager and an excellent researcher promoted beyond the scope of her talents, and she made the classic mistake of misunderstanding the difference between a popular platform and a range of products that users really want. Now she's out of time and out of ideas.
- Artistry121 11y ago
  Another view is that Yahoo! began facing stiff competition from a few of the greatest minds in the world before she was brought on and playing catchup is nearly impossible unless missteps are made by those in the market lead. It's possible that the situation at Yahoo has been too tough to remedy for years and no matter how competent she was she couldn't turn it around.
VLM 11y ago
"If they fire Mayer, yahoo will be dead" I assure you grandma trying to look at pix of her grandkids on flickr could not possibly care less about the hiring and firing of the parent companies CEO. On the other hand nothing excites CNBC-watching investors than hiring and firing CEOs. A long term guaranteed tank to oblivion is to amuse the investors without providing any value to back it up. They tried that, it hasn't worked. Time to switch and try to generate long term value by focusing on the users instead of the CNBC viewers. Its their only long term hope. Any other strategy is just trying to extract the most cash on the way down. Which may be their only possible choice if they have no way to generate long term value. Something HN stereotypically has little experience with is mega-corporations. A UX designer's bosses bosses bosses bosses (repeat many times) bosses boss has no impact on their job performance. At a high level they have no control over low level operations in practice. If at low level yahoo is improving thats nice but has nothing to do with the CEO. At the high level they can buy, sell, start, shut down divisions or major projects.
gozur88 11y ago
>If they fire Mayer, yahoo will be dead and they will lose everything. Rather the opposite. If the keep her Yahoo will be dead. While existing problems were legion when she arrived, she hasn't made much progress. Yahoo needs a CEO who is willing to lay out a vision for the brand and ruthlessly pursue it. Anything else will just prolong its slow slide beneath the waves.

by reacweb 11y ago

douche 11y ago

I wouldn't say that Yahoo's reputation has improved over the last few years... In my mind, they have gone from a completely forgotten also-ran of an earlier era of the internet, to an example of Keystone Cops-level bumbling.

dhimes 11y ago

I'm a paying customer of Yahoo, and I'm honestly stressing whether or not I'm going to be SOL. They've changed their store/web merchant stuff, and I don't know if they off-loaded it or not (they call it a re-brand). But I had to make a new login. And for the love of God it's been 6 years and I still can't put a link to "Small business" on my "personal" page's sidebar. I mean, what the fuck? I have to have a personal bookmark, and now the link has changed to something I'll never remember if I'm at a computer other than this one. Ugh. Yes, I am losing confidence.

TheOtherHobbes 11y ago

If they fire Mayer, Yahoo will probably be sold and they'll get something back before the value tanks. Mayer doesn't need more time. She's a competent middle manager and an excellent researcher promoted beyond the scope of her talents, and she made the classic mistake of misunderstanding the difference between a popular platform and a range of products that users really want. Now she's out of time and out of ideas.

Artistry121 11y ago
Another view is that Yahoo! began facing stiff competition from a few of the greatest minds in the world before she was brought on and playing catchup is nearly impossible unless missteps are made by those in the market lead. It's possible that the situation at Yahoo has been too tough to remedy for years and no matter how competent she was she couldn't turn it around.

VLM 11y ago

"If they fire Mayer, yahoo will be dead" I assure you grandma trying to look at pix of her grandkids on flickr could not possibly care less about the hiring and firing of the parent companies CEO. On the other hand nothing excites CNBC-watching investors than hiring and firing CEOs. A long term guaranteed tank to oblivion is to amuse the investors without providing any value to back it up. They tried that, it hasn't worked. Time to switch and try to generate long term value by focusing on the users instead of the CNBC viewers. Its their only long term hope. Any other strategy is just trying to extract the most cash on the way down. Which may be their only possible choice if they have no way to generate long term value. Something HN stereotypically has little experience with is mega-corporations. A UX designer's bosses bosses bosses bosses (repeat many times) bosses boss has no impact on their job performance. At a high level they have no control over low level operations in practice. If at low level yahoo is improving thats nice but has nothing to do with the CEO. At the high level they can buy, sell, start, shut down divisions or major projects.

gozur88 11y ago

>If they fire Mayer, yahoo will be dead and they will lose everything. Rather the opposite. If the keep her Yahoo will be dead. While existing problems were legion when she arrived, she hasn't made much progress. Yahoo needs a CEO who is willing to lay out a vision for the brand and ruthlessly pursue it. Anything else will just prolong its slow slide beneath the waves.