To be fair to Mayer, I don’t think anyone could have saved Yahoo. She presided over a (mostly) graceful decline which allowed a reasonable end to the company.

To be fair to Mayer, I don’t think anyone could have saved Yahoo. She presided over a (mostly) graceful decline which allowed a reasonable end to the company. She wasn’t some genius but I never understood why she was considered that by some anyhow: she’d previously shown solid competency not amazing insight.