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Sure it does: it may have been the only way to attract and retain enough top engineering and design talent to keep the consumer brands valuable enough to sell a
by tomhoward 9y ago
Sure it does: it may have been the only way to attract and retain enough top engineering and design talent to keep the consumer brands valuable enough to sell at a good price.
Xobni, in particular, would fit that justification, given how key email has been to Yahoo's user retention.
Tumblr on the other hand was more of a product/brand/audience acquisition than an acquihire, but it could well have made the suite of consumer brands more attractive to buyers.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoSo she got paid preposterous amounts of money to ruin other businesses so she could use their workforce to fool investors in to propping up Yahoo when it was noticed Yahoo was no longer useful and was falling in it's goals? Capitalism: 'optimising' markets by giving all the value created to individuals who destroy the means of value creation. It's like some sort of economic terrorism, destroy any hope of economy and flee with the money.
- marcosdumay 9y agoNow that you've named it, this looks way too common.