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I'm not sure how you can hold Meyer directly responsible for the clunky Yahoo email client. This reads as incredibly sexist.

by leoh 8y ago

jondubois 8y ago
The new Yahoo mail client was her incentive, it was all over the news and she was actively claiming credit for it. The worst part is that she was claiming that it was faster but all users felt that it was the opposite. https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2012/12/11/marissa-mayer-announces-yahoo-mail-redesign-focused-on-speed-mobile/amp/ https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2012/12/11/m...
pantheon 8y ago
Why is it sexist? She did terrible at Yahoo. That's fact. Or you say, just because she is woman, people should say she did a good job?
- pm90 8y ago
  No but they shouldn't single her out either. I don't see him slamming any number of male tech executives who made mistakes.
  - danso 8y ago
    I agree, that that is the relevant point. There should be any number of Google execs to blame, whose period of employment actually coincided with the Picasa/Finance changes, and with some of many other past Google product shutdowns/overhauls. That the author chooses to rip on Mayer -- who hasn't been at Google in the past 6 years -- makes me expect that she was legendarily responsible for other Google product fails, but that doesn't seem the case. What does Mayer's floundering in her post-Googler-career as Yahoo's CEO have to do with the product failures of Picasa and Finance? Referencing her in this context makes as little sense as referencing Andy Rubin -- another prominent Googler who went on to flounder as CEO.
  - pantheon 8y ago
    You can single out whoever you want. It is not sexist. What is wrong with the world?!
    - pm90 8y ago
      Consistently singling out a certain group of people betrays bias and likely animus towards that group. For this author, that group seems to be women.

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I'm not sure how you can hold Meyer directly responsible for the clunky Yahoo email client. This reads as incredibly sexist.

by leoh 8y ago

I'm not sure how you can hold Meyer directly responsible for the clunky Yahoo email client. This reads as incredibly sexist.

jondubois 8y ago
The new Yahoo mail client was her incentive, it was all over the news and she was actively claiming credit for it. The worst part is that she was claiming that it was faster but all users felt that it was the opposite. https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2012/12/11/marissa-mayer-announces-yahoo-mail-redesign-focused-on-speed-mobile/amp/ https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2012/12/11/m...
pantheon 8y ago
Why is it sexist? She did terrible at Yahoo. That's fact. Or you say, just because she is woman, people should say she did a good job?
- pm90 8y ago
  No but they shouldn't single her out either. I don't see him slamming any number of male tech executives who made mistakes.
  - danso 8y ago
    I agree, that that is the relevant point. There should be any number of Google execs to blame, whose period of employment actually coincided with the Picasa/Finance changes, and with some of many other past Google product shutdowns/overhauls. That the author chooses to rip on Mayer -- who hasn't been at Google in the past 6 years -- makes me expect that she was legendarily responsible for other Google product fails, but that doesn't seem the case. What does Mayer's floundering in her post-Googler-career as Yahoo's CEO have to do with the product failures of Picasa and Finance? Referencing her in this context makes as little sense as referencing Andy Rubin -- another prominent Googler who went on to flounder as CEO.
  - pantheon 8y ago
    You can single out whoever you want. It is not sexist. What is wrong with the world?!
    - pm90 8y ago
      Consistently singling out a certain group of people betrays bias and likely animus towards that group. For this author, that group seems to be women.