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The theory is that no one good would take the job because the likelihood of failure was so high without a parachute. This type of ousting will certainly hurt Ma
by a_small_island 10y ago
The theory is that no one good would take the job because the likelihood of failure was so high without a parachute. This type of ousting will certainly hurt Mayer's future CEO options, or so the theory goes.
- leroy_masochist 10y agoI guess it depends on how you define failure. I agree that elevating Yahoo to its previous place in the SV hierarchy would have been a tall order, but I think that prudent management of healthy business verticals combined with a conservative and thoughtful approach to acquisitions would have been pretty doable.