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Yahoo Cuts $4.8B Deal to Sell Core Business to Verizon

• brudgers 10y ago
  Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12154528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12154528
• pen2l 10y ago
  It's interesting to me that Scott Thompson was kicked out for not having a degree (or rather, lying about having a CS degree that he didn't have) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thompson_(businessman) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thompson_(businessman) - this happened in the Sillicon Valley we know, with Zuckerbergs and Gates. Seems incredibly strange. Before being CEO at Yahoo, he was working as CTO at eBay/Paypal, which would indicate to me he is more than competent enough. I wonder if he might have been more successful than Mayer if he had been at the helm longer -- he does seem to have history of success in leadership positions.
  • Jgrubb 10y ago
    I dunno, I seem to recall a laundry list of folks that were qualified on paper to do the job who still couldn't do the job.