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Congratulations to Marissa on a job well done. That boat was a sinking ship that no one wanted to captain, and she kept it alive long enough to a satisfactory o

by rb808 9y ago

Congratulations to Marissa on a job well done. That boat was a sinking ship that no one wanted to captain, and she kept it alive long enough to a satisfactory outcome.

johansch 9y ago
Yeah, that wasn't really how her appointment was sold: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-ceo-idUSBRE86F13T20120717 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-ceo-idUSBRE86F13T201... "Yahoo turns to Google's Mayer for revival" https://www.forbes.com/sites/dorieclark/2012/07/16/3-reasons-why-marissa-mayers-hiring-is-a-huge-win-for-yahoo/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/dorieclark/2012/07/16/3-reasons... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-18/yahoo-help-us-marissa-mayer-dot-youre-our-only-hope https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-18/yahoo-hel...
- dgfgfdagasdfgfa 9y ago
  Who are reuters, forbes, and bloomberg to say? They don't know the market; it's not like rescuing yahoo was actually in any way possible. The site was a finance site, a sports site, and a shitty email server stuck to a link farm. Not to mention flickr, tumblr, etc that had little to no role in the revenue generation of the company. RIP del.icio.us. If the company had been saved it would not have been Yahoo! anymore.
jonknee 9y ago
Millions of people would have taken the job of draining YHOO's coffers while sitting on a huge stake in one of the world's hottest pre-IPO companies... Yahoo's board just so happened to want a flashy name.
IshKebab 9y ago
Really though? It's hard to imagine it could have gone worse really. Look at Flickr.
josefresco 9y ago
Tim Armstrong might disagree.
fullshark 9y ago
I don't think she was an absolute failure like many others do but this is a very generous take on her performance. I'm not going to monday morning QB her work but it did seem like there was no real vision there for yahoo as a company. They just seemed to acquire random things and took a scatter shot approach to investing to build the company (though to be fair, that is how it ended up with its AliBaba holding).
mrweasel 9y ago
I sort of agree, there is no way that Marissa Mayer could have avoided this outcome, and it could honestly have been worse, in terms of value to the shareholders. For Yahoo to survive it would have been forced to become something it didn't want to be. Yahoo had/has a series of good and potentially valuable properties, like Flickr, Yahoo Finance and potentially BrightRoll. The thing is that Yahoo would become a vastly different company, a much smaller company. None of the people and companies with Yahoo shares would have excepted that Yahoo was going to be reduced to a minor, even if profitable, online company. The perception is that Yahoo is a key internet property, despite that this perception is 10 - 15 years old.

by rb808 9y ago

Congratulations to Marissa on a job well done. That boat was a sinking ship that no one wanted to captain, and she kept it alive long enough to a satisfactory outcome.

johansch 9y ago

Yeah, that wasn't really how her appointment was sold: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-ceo-idUSBRE86F13T20120717 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-ceo-idUSBRE86F13T201... "Yahoo turns to Google's Mayer for revival" https://www.forbes.com/sites/dorieclark/2012/07/16/3-reasons-why-marissa-mayers-hiring-is-a-huge-win-for-yahoo/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/dorieclark/2012/07/16/3-reasons... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-18/yahoo-help-us-marissa-mayer-dot-youre-our-only-hope https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-18/yahoo-hel...

dgfgfdagasdfgfa 9y ago
Who are reuters, forbes, and bloomberg to say? They don't know the market; it's not like rescuing yahoo was actually in any way possible. The site was a finance site, a sports site, and a shitty email server stuck to a link farm. Not to mention flickr, tumblr, etc that had little to no role in the revenue generation of the company. RIP del.icio.us. If the company had been saved it would not have been Yahoo! anymore.

jonknee 9y ago

Millions of people would have taken the job of draining YHOO's coffers while sitting on a huge stake in one of the world's hottest pre-IPO companies... Yahoo's board just so happened to want a flashy name.

IshKebab 9y ago

Really though? It's hard to imagine it could have gone worse really. Look at Flickr.

josefresco 9y ago

Tim Armstrong might disagree.

fullshark 9y ago

I don't think she was an absolute failure like many others do but this is a very generous take on her performance. I'm not going to monday morning QB her work but it did seem like there was no real vision there for yahoo as a company. They just seemed to acquire random things and took a scatter shot approach to investing to build the company (though to be fair, that is how it ended up with its AliBaba holding).

mrweasel 9y ago

I sort of agree, there is no way that Marissa Mayer could have avoided this outcome, and it could honestly have been worse, in terms of value to the shareholders. For Yahoo to survive it would have been forced to become something it didn't want to be. Yahoo had/has a series of good and potentially valuable properties, like Flickr, Yahoo Finance and potentially BrightRoll. The thing is that Yahoo would become a vastly different company, a much smaller company. None of the people and companies with Yahoo shares would have excepted that Yahoo was going to be reduced to a minor, even if profitable, online company. The perception is that Yahoo is a key internet property, despite that this perception is 10 - 15 years old.