You know those algae blooms that block off all sunlight and kill a pond? Yahoo has that in the form of middle managers. Marissa's biggest (and perhaps even the

You know those algae blooms that block off all sunlight and kill a pond? Yahoo has that in the form of middle managers. Marissa's biggest (and perhaps even the only) mistake was to not get rid of this oxygen-depriving algae. Had she eliminated the middle-managers and meeting junkies, she could have liberated the engineers to actually deliver some solid products. // source: wasted many years of my life at Yahoo, left after Marissa came and I realized that she was being hoodwinked by the manager-types.