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The selection bias amongst tech professionals in their perception of Yahoo is a huge barrier to Yahoo's hiring, acquisition, and new tech launches -- simply put
by swombat 17y ago
The selection bias amongst tech professionals in their perception of Yahoo is a huge barrier to Yahoo's hiring, acquisition, and new tech launches -- simply put, the tech community doesn't use our products, and as a result, they believe nobody uses our products.
Is that not considered worth fixing by the Yahoo leadership? Having good support from early adopters seems pretty important when you're a tech company...
- elblanco 17y agoYahoo is old enough and big enough now that it's worth it for them to consider becoming a GE or a Walmart. Ubiquitous with everybody but early adopters. And I know that plenty of very good engineers work at GE (and Walmart corporate for that matter, their transaction volume and business intelligence systems are insane).
- joshu 17y agoUnfortunately, the notion that Yahoo management could decide to do something and then do it makes me laugh and laugh.
- anamax 17y ago> Having good support from early adopters seems pretty important when you're a tech company... It depends. Many of the things adopted by "early adopters" never catch on. And, fast followers often win, so if the tech crowd isn't your dominant market, their early adopters may not matter.