Yeah but those stocks were going up regardless. I thought the only point in Yahoo existing for the past few years was trying to figure out some way to avoid tax

Yeah but those stocks were going up regardless. I thought the only point in Yahoo existing for the past few years was trying to figure out some way to avoid tax on selling the alibaba/yahoo japan stake. Yahoo critically failed at that and when it did it got sold soon after. Not sure if this all looks good for Mayer as a good value creating leader.