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I don't know man. but if you loan me $4bn I will buy Yahoo and run it myself. I too don't understand how they can't make Yahoo a success. They have a couple of

by vinhboy 10y ago

I don't know man. but if you loan me $4bn I will buy Yahoo and run it myself. I too don't understand how they can't make Yahoo a success. They have a couple of great products that people use like Fantasy sports and Finance. And mail would be just fine if they'd remove all the crap so it would run faster. Lots of non techy still uses yahoo mail, and that won't change as long as the service exists.

ghaff 10y ago
>Lots of non techy still uses yahoo mail, and that won't change as long as the service exists. And how many of those people pay money for Yahoo mail other than indirectly through the "crap" you want to get rid of?
bduerst 10y ago
I dunno - I feel like it's committing Dunning-Krugers to say, "Just run Yahoo! better, sheesh." because there's a ton we can't see on the surface of the company, looking in, that the business currently has to cope with. If anything, these two hacks being announced years later, along with their voluntary NSA backdoor, demonstrates that Yahoo! has skeletons in their closet.
- anigbrowl 10y ago
  It is, but at this point what have shareholders got to lose? By the way, I'm available. I went on record in my book 21 years ago that Yahoo was my favorite web directory (the term 'search engine' hadn't been coined at that point) so I've been following Yahoo since not long after it was a gleam in Jerry Yang's eye. At this point I figure that makes me as qualified as anyone else to run it. Inquiries to my username...@gmail. Go on Yahoo board, ask me why I switched and you might learn something useful.
AJ007 10y ago
User metrics may not look so great. I have no idea what Yahoo's are but over the next few years most of those mail users are going to be accessing through the phone or checking their webmail a handful of times a year until they forget they have it. They could keep habitual users for decades but that won't be worth billions of dollars. I used the phrase "management assisted suicide" recently, which basically means figuring out how to maximize return to shareholders given a future that guarantees death.

by vinhboy 10y ago

ghaff 10y ago

>Lots of non techy still uses yahoo mail, and that won't change as long as the service exists. And how many of those people pay money for Yahoo mail other than indirectly through the "crap" you want to get rid of?

bduerst 10y ago

I dunno - I feel like it's committing Dunning-Krugers to say, "Just run Yahoo! better, sheesh." because there's a ton we can't see on the surface of the company, looking in, that the business currently has to cope with. If anything, these two hacks being announced years later, along with their voluntary NSA backdoor, demonstrates that Yahoo! has skeletons in their closet.

anigbrowl 10y ago
It is, but at this point what have shareholders got to lose? By the way, I'm available. I went on record in my book 21 years ago that Yahoo was my favorite web directory (the term 'search engine' hadn't been coined at that point) so I've been following Yahoo since not long after it was a gleam in Jerry Yang's eye. At this point I figure that makes me as qualified as anyone else to run it. Inquiries to my username...@gmail. Go on Yahoo board, ask me why I switched and you might learn something useful.

AJ007 10y ago

User metrics may not look so great. I have no idea what Yahoo's are but over the next few years most of those mail users are going to be accessing through the phone or checking their webmail a handful of times a year until they forget they have it. They could keep habitual users for decades but that won't be worth billions of dollars. I used the phrase "management assisted suicide" recently, which basically means figuring out how to maximize return to shareholders given a future that guarantees death.