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drove Yahoo further into the ditch, got paid millions for it. glad to see her go, most overrated tech executive ever.
by alt_f4 9y ago
drove Yahoo further into the ditch, got paid millions for it. glad to see her go, most overrated tech executive ever.
- velodrome 9y agoYahoo was in "the ditch" long before Mayer. They had the opportunity to buy Google for $1M, they passed on it... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoNYEe0WEAAGC0P.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoNYEe0WEAAGC0P.jpg:large
- muninn_ 9y agoWhich is something that happens. People miss opportunities to invest all the time. Mayer destroyed Yahoo and raised the stock price high enough that investors were happy. Totally different. All you have to do is look at the stock price from when she took over to when Yahoo got sold. I was a huge fan of her when she first started. I do not respect her now.
- nihonde 9y agoYang also bought into Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan, both of which made Mayer's job of returning shareholder value an autopilot gig that any one of us could have "succeeded" in while collecting $900MM a week in comp. She's just another Emperor without clothes.
- nihonde 9y agoSorry, I meant $900K per week. Still...
- unfunco 9y agoThe Yahoo share price has increased substantially since she has been there (almost 3x from a quick glance) – nobody can reinvent Yahoo at this stage, if she was hired to satisfy investors then the majority of them are surely pleased.
- nihonde 9y agoAnd they have Jerry Yang to thank for his foresight in investing in China and Japan.
- JPKab 9y agoIt's not her fault she was over-hyped. The media really, really wants a female Silicon Valley CEO success story, and they're going to project it onto whoever they can find. Yahoo isn't something able to be rescued. They don't have a mission. They have a big investment in a highly successful Chinese e-commerce company and a hodgepodge of web apps that people still like (Yahoo Finance).
- battlebot 9y agoThe one who run/ran Theranos is arguably worse. And Meg Whitman? The one who did the same to HP. There's a lot of over-rated male CEOs out there, too. In fact, I think most all CEOs are over-rated and definitely over-compensated, too.