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What is the focus of Yahoo? What does it do? It grew up as a search and catalog company. Then it got in to content. Then mail. Then 50 other things. What is the

What is the focus of Yahoo? What does it do? It grew up as a search and catalog company. Then it got in to content. Then mail. Then 50 other things. What is the unifying theme to all this? "Connecting people to content" could be anything. All of us who run online sites connect people to content. Perhaps the current management is getting Yahoo there, but where's the focus? Where's the soul of this company anymore? A decline may be ok if there is a light at the end of the tunnel where they start to grow again, or sustain what they have. Think Detroit mayor trying to downsize the city in to something manageable to make it livable and prosperous again.

edw519 17y ago
What is the unifying theme to all this?...Where's the soul of this company anymore? I suppose you could ask the same thing about: - Exxon-Mobil - Walmart - Microsoft - Berkshire-Hathaway - General Electric - Johnson & Johnson At what point do we 86 the MBA mumbo jumbo, get a customer, and just make some money?
- CapitalistCartr 17y ago
  Except I can answer that question easily with those companies off the top of my head: Exxon-Mobil: Bringing petro-chemicals to the World. Walmart: Low-cost retail leader Microsoft: PC software. Berkshire-Hathaway: Financial investing by the best. General Electric: Making electricity work for us; the tools, the distribution, and the applications. Johnson & Johnson: Making toiletry, and medical supplies.
- yankeeracer73 17y ago
  I don't care what you call it. Unless they have some sort of vision, they will continue to bleed good people and mind share until they are completely irrelevant. Cost cutting and efficiency gains are only going to get them so far. What will they be pursuing that will motivate their employees, allow them to hire talent excited about working there again, and cut the perception they are the next AOL? Sorry, but "providing content to people" is a little too amorphous for anyone to be too jazzed about.

edw519 17y ago

What is the unifying theme to all this?...Where's the soul of this company anymore? I suppose you could ask the same thing about: - Exxon-Mobil - Walmart - Microsoft - Berkshire-Hathaway - General Electric - Johnson & Johnson At what point do we 86 the MBA mumbo jumbo, get a customer, and just make some money?

CapitalistCartr 17y ago
Except I can answer that question easily with those companies off the top of my head: Exxon-Mobil: Bringing petro-chemicals to the World. Walmart: Low-cost retail leader Microsoft: PC software. Berkshire-Hathaway: Financial investing by the best. General Electric: Making electricity work for us; the tools, the distribution, and the applications. Johnson & Johnson: Making toiletry, and medical supplies.
yankeeracer73 17y ago
I don't care what you call it. Unless they have some sort of vision, they will continue to bleed good people and mind share until they are completely irrelevant. Cost cutting and efficiency gains are only going to get them so far. What will they be pursuing that will motivate their employees, allow them to hire talent excited about working there again, and cut the perception they are the next AOL? Sorry, but "providing content to people" is a little too amorphous for anyone to be too jazzed about.