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Yahoo 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.jp
by velodrome 9y ago
Yahoo 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...