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I think it's pointless and sad to bash her because, once again, I don't think it can reasonably be said that somebody else had the expertise to save Yahoo. We'l

I think it's pointless and sad to bash her because, once again, I don't think it can reasonably be said that somebody else had the expertise to save Yahoo. We'll never know, of course. Also, being the CEO of an "old and out of touch" company with services that only grannies use nowadays leaves you open to lots of undeserved bashing. So bashing her is easy. But she should be bashed if she was a bad CEO (which she wasn't, I think) or if somebody else would've done better than her (a person that most probably doesn't exist). So there's that. (Yes, most of my comment was facetious. Don't take it literally)

CalChris 10y ago
Take a look at what Meyers did at Yahoo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo!#Marissa_Mayer_era_.282012.E2.80.93present.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo!#Marissa_Maye... Basically, Yahoo has had exactly two successes: its investment in Google signed in 2001 when Yahoo used Google's search results and Jerry Yang's heroic investment in Alibaba. Everything Meyers did was simply spending that money. It's easy to spend money, especially when you have a lot and you are getting paid bank.
chris_wot 10y ago
This "bashing" seems to be an attempt to deflect any and all criticism of her countless mistakes at Yahoo! - not least of which was that they helped leak vast swathes of personal data due to their CEO's reckless indifference to security.
nommm-nommm 10y ago
>Also, being the CEO of an "old and out of touch" company with services that only grannies use nowadays Yahoo owns both Flickr and Tumblr which are both popular with younger crowd.
forgetsusername 10y ago
>Also, being the CEO of an "old and out of touch" company with services that only grannies use nowadays leaves you open to lots of undeserved bashing. So are CEOs responsible for the company or not? Because HackerNews seems to want bank executives to go to prison for actions taken by the company and its employees. However, we don't want to even hold a tech CEO accountable for the financial results of the company because the culture is "stodgy"? One of the CEO's jobs is to change the culture.

CalChris 10y ago

Take a look at what Meyers did at Yahoo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo!#Marissa_Mayer_era_.282012.E2.80.93present.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yahoo!#Marissa_Maye... Basically, Yahoo has had exactly two successes: its investment in Google signed in 2001 when Yahoo used Google's search results and Jerry Yang's heroic investment in Alibaba. Everything Meyers did was simply spending that money. It's easy to spend money, especially when you have a lot and you are getting paid bank.

chris_wot 10y ago

This "bashing" seems to be an attempt to deflect any and all criticism of her countless mistakes at Yahoo! - not least of which was that they helped leak vast swathes of personal data due to their CEO's reckless indifference to security.

nommm-nommm 10y ago

>Also, being the CEO of an "old and out of touch" company with services that only grannies use nowadays Yahoo owns both Flickr and Tumblr which are both popular with younger crowd.

forgetsusername 10y ago

>Also, being the CEO of an "old and out of touch" company with services that only grannies use nowadays leaves you open to lots of undeserved bashing. So are CEOs responsible for the company or not? Because HackerNews seems to want bank executives to go to prison for actions taken by the company and its employees. However, we don't want to even hold a tech CEO accountable for the financial results of the company because the culture is "stodgy"? One of the CEO's jobs is to change the culture.