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I'd rather be Microsoft than Yahoo - (37signals)
- viralvid 20y agoI d rather be a startup that can bilk google and paul graham at the same time ;)
- omouse 20y agoYahoo seems to be in a better position even if they do have bad leadership at the moment. Their brand doesn't poison anything they acquire. Imagine if Flickr was owned by Microsoft...I can't even imagine Microsoft even attempting to buy them! Jason should stop daydreaming about being either Yahoo or Microsoft and get back to making good stuff as these posts say: http://www.backpackit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2050 http://www.backpackit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2050 and http://forum.basecamphq.com/forums/3/topics/163 http://forum.basecamphq.com/forums/3/topics/163
- Tichy 20y agoWhy is everybody on Yahoo's case? I don't know much about their leadership or their ad revenues, but I know their products and I think they are not bad. Google has YouTube and Google Earth, but Yahoo has del.icio.us, flickr, yahoo answers and lots of other things. So I think it's not fair to claim that Yahoo is totally missing what is currently going on with the web. When I go shopping for physical stuff, I very often end up in a big store. Why? Because it is most likely that they have everything I want. I think Yahoo currently has more products than Google, so in that sense they seem to be in a better situation than Google. That said, the question is a no-brainer: would I like to have 40 billion $ in the bank? I sure would.