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> I want to play devil's advocate here, just a bit. Looking at it solely from a stock price perspective, she's done remarkably well: the share price roughly dou
by jonknee 11y ago
> I want to play devil's advocate here, just a bit. Looking at it solely from a stock price perspective, she's done remarkably well: the share price roughly doubled during her tenure there. Obviously there are a lot of other metrics to look at, but if you're a struggling company as Yahoo was, that's probably enough to consider hiring her.
She has done terribly. The stock price has little to do with her and almost everything to do with Alibaba. If you remove Alibaba she is now in control of a company worse less than its cash.
- toast0 11y ago> She has done terribly. The stock price has little to do with her and almost everything to do with Alibaba. If you remove Alibaba she is now in control of a company worse less than its cash. Wasn't that the case when she started, too?
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoOne could argue that she was hired to fix that, though. And failed.
- toast0 11y agoSure, but when was the last time Y! had a successful CEO? Terry Semel before people he fell out of favor? Lasting 4 years is pretty good.
- jonknee 11y agoTough to say, Alibaba wasn't public when she started so no one knew how much Yahoo's stake was worth. The stock had a nice period before the IPO when people who wanted to buy BABA shares instead bought YHOO because they were available. It didn't hurt that the market was red hot and there were huge expectations for BABA.