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Yeah I keep hearing the same thing, but obviously it's at least worth around what Verizon paid for it. I think it's actually worth more, but there is so much h
by pcurve 10y ago
Yeah I keep hearing the same thing, but obviously it's at least worth around what Verizon paid for it. I think it's actually worth more, but there is so much hate for the company and its management team.
- ixtli 10y agoWhile the thing you're responding to is obviously idiotic it occurs to me that the sanity of the valuation of Yahoo! is not "obvious" at all. It's a result of the application of partially visible heuristics to determine the worth of things like users, views, "talent," and etc, all passed through back-room dealing at the executive level and bargaining behind closed doors. The reason I bother coming here to say this is that I think the idea that 4.8 billion dollars "makes sense" to an outsider is endemic of thinking that leads to a dangerous lack of regulation. In other words, I'd be careful not to assume that the left hand always knows what the right hand is doing in companies at this scale.