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Maybe working at Google is better than Yahoo!, but both companies are notorious for killing acquired startups. Its hard for me to see any reason for the Yelp ma
by bigbang 16y ago
Maybe working at Google is better than Yahoo!, but both companies are notorious for killing acquired startups. Its hard for me to see any reason for the Yelp management team to take the Google offer when Yahoo! offer was almost 40% more.
I suspect there is more to the story.
- neilk 16y agoI'm not sure we should really blame either of them for "killing" startups. In truth, often times, the startup just fails to grow much, or fails to complete a rewrite to be more scalable. But that might have happened anyway. We can say that they both have a history of not giving startups what they need to succeed, especially social startups. However, at Yahoo it's largely related to internal power struggles on the order of Europe in 1913, and it can seem much more personal.