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...giving it breathing room more than the previous three One of the previous CEOs was the founder Jerry Yang. He made one of the most epic corporate investment
by zaidf 10y ago
...giving it breathing room more than the previous three
One of the previous CEOs was the founder Jerry Yang. He made one of the most epic corporate investments when he fought for Yahoo to invest in Alibaba.
No one, no one could have saved it and made it relevant.
If we are going to set the bar so low, I can think of a lot of qualified people in the Valley that could have done as good or better job than Marissa. She made a whole bunch of bets and basically none of them panned out. Her top skillset was supposed to be Product Management and the best that has yielded are one-time decent Yahoo products becoming shittier.
- mc32 10y agoYang was the fourth one down after Levinsohn, Thompson, Bartz... and he lasted all of 18 months... Arguably the sandwich was prepared by Semel.