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> Marissa Mayer turned Yahoo into a startup lottery. Yahoo just participates in the startup lottery like every other company its size. The lottery already exi
by notacoward 10y ago
> Marissa Mayer turned Yahoo into a startup lottery.
Yahoo just participates in the startup lottery like every other company its size. The lottery already existed, and Yahoo was already part of it, long before Mayer. Ditto after Mayer, I'm sure. Don't blame her for one of Silicon Valley's fundamental pathologies.
- asimuvPR 10y agoExactly. They just went with it because its "normal". Either way, didn't Paul Graham sell a company to yahoo and then started YC?