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Well, for one, being an executive at a multi-billion dollar giant which was growing or doing well. edit: by "executive", I was including the whole C-suite – sh
by kornish 10y ago
Well, for one, being an executive at a multi-billion dollar giant which was growing or doing well.
edit: by "executive", I was including the whole C-suite – should have clarified.
- pmlnr 10y agoBut those tend to hire/promote CEOs who can actually push things forward.
- kornish 10y agoNot all executives are chief executives. Meyer surely could have gotten another VP or SVP job at a non-Google company with momentum. To require compensation for risk/opportunity cost in foregoing those opportunities seems very reasonable.
- oh_sigh 10y agoWhat company fitting that description could Mayer have gone to?
- jacquesm 10y agoBut which multi-billion dollar giant would go for an in-experienced CEO? Running a department of a large company is not the same as being CEO of even a much smaller one. I figure the only reason she was given a shot was that the Yahoo! board hoped the Google magic had somehow rubbed off on Mayer and that that alone would make the difference. Other than that I don't see what would have gotten her a CEO spot, especially not in a growing company at the multi-billion $ level. Yahoo! did not have that much to lose at that point in time.
- wwalser 10y agoThe person above you didn't say CEO. They said exec. If she had stayed at Google and had some equity comp she would have netted more money. Absolutely.