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> She didn't do "resort to" anything. You have to give her credit where it's due: she saved the Alibaba partnership from that total fuckup, Carol Bartz. CB wa
by 1024core 10y ago
> She didn't do "resort to" anything.
You have to give her credit where it's due: she saved the Alibaba partnership from that total fuckup, Carol Bartz. CB was such a fuckup, that she's the sun to Marissa's candle. She insulted Jack Ma in front of his underlings when he came calling to Sunnyvale. She refused/forgot to put someone on BABA's board and totally ignored Ma. As a result, Ma said 'fuck you' and took Alipay out of the group without even telling Bartz.
I wish more people looked at the period preceding Marissa (Bartz, Thompson) and they'd realize that Mayer was a Godsend compared to the cabal of clowns running Yahoo before her.
- derefr 10y agoEven if it's true that her management was better than previous management, I think everyone here is applying a standard where someone shouldn't get compensated for management that was provably worse than no management, because having no management is free. If the board of directors had just told everybody to go on without a CEO, the company would have done better financially than if they had installed Marissa.
- 1024core 10y agoHindsight is 20/20.