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Fact is, regardless of her performance, she is now in the executive club, and once you're a member, it's hard to get kicked out. The biggest thing, in my opini
by dharmon 11y ago
Fact is, regardless of her performance, she is now in the executive club, and once you're a member, it's hard to get kicked out.
The biggest thing, in my opinion, to hurt her future career is fighting the large stakeholders on the sale. Showing a willingness to play ball with stakeholders is a positive sign for a future CEO position.
But give it a few years and all investors will remember is that Starboard made a quick 50% (or whatever) on Yahoo and she'll be remembered as "shareholder friendly" for "leading" the sale (a great badge to have if you're in the market for a CEO job).
- fizixer 11y agofight the large stakeholders ... as in resist the selling? she would wanna do that because she might think she can still make Yahoo recover, and if Yahoo is sold, it'll give the impression that she failed as a CEO? Just trying to understand the whole thing.
- dharmon 11y agoYes, resist in selling. And yes, she doesn't want her legacy to be Yahoo's value nosediving under her watch (whether or not it was her fault). I'm not saying she's wrong in resisting, only that resisting is a "neg" when it comes to getting future CEO jobs. The tanking value can be explained away ("the momentum was insurmountable", etc.), but resisting stakeholders too strongly cannot.