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>She was the best CEO of all the ones Yahoo had seen So the best CEO Yahoo! has ever seen couldn't turn the ship around. does that say more about the state of

• phamilton 10y ago
  > Marissa was able to vanquish the chronically poor self-esteem in the organization for a little while, but eventually Yahoo’s organizational depression took hold again. That summarizes my experience at Yahoo pretty well. The company was broken when she took over. Deep in its structure, in its hiring, in its middle management, it was broken. Marissa did not break it, but she was also unable to fix it.
• kafkaesq 10y ago
  Probably more about the state of Yahoo. Mayer really was quite talented, by all accounts. But Yahoo's problems really were quite fundamental - down to the fundamental questions of what its line if business could have, or should have been - beyond simply issues of morale and revenue. So another spin on the whole sage might well be, "If Marissa Mayer couldn't turn Yahoo around -- maybe no one could."