As one of the founders, Jobs had an emotional investment in Apple you could never expect from an outsider brought in to helm a mature company. The problem with

As one of the founders, Jobs had an emotional investment in Apple you could never expect from an outsider brought in to helm a mature company. The problem with Yahoo is nobody knows what the company does. I don't see how anybody could have turned what amounts to a couple popular news websites into something like Google or Apple without engaging in some kind of very-low-odds moon shot. What they probably should have done was liquidated the company. The web sites would have fetched top dollar, and the company has technical expertise in business units that seem to be pretty much wasted at this point.