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People would have said the same thing in 2003-2004 if someone offered $16 a share for AAPL...now they'd look stupid.
by bkbleikamp 18y ago
People would have said the same thing in 2003-2004 if someone offered $16 a share for AAPL...now they'd look stupid.
- signa11 18y agoif yahoo! has a steve-jobs in the closet somewhere, it's about time he showed up...
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- daniel-cussen 18y agoCofounder Jerry Yang is back as CEO.
- jmzachary 18y agoGood one, but don't quit your day job.
- bkbleikamp 18y agoWho's to say someone at Yahoo doesn't have the capability of coming up with the "next big thing?" Maybe the junior developer they hired last week will have a great idea tomorrow - you never know. Steve Jobs came back in 1996 - it took 5 years for them to launch the iPod. It's anyone's guess where Yahoo will be in 5 years - maybe Jerry Yang will be looked at as a hero, maybe not. Predicting Yahoo's position five years from now is impossible.
- phaedrus 18y agoMaybe the junior developer does have a great idea tomorrow - the question is, will anyone listen to him? Or will his small voice not be heard in a big company? It's not that they lack people who have the potential to do great things, it's the size/culture, the organization itself, which in (most) large corporations stifles new ideas and creativity.
- anupamkapoor 18y agoradical changes will flow top down not bottom up. at least not in any organization of yahoo!'s size.
- dmoney 18y agoWhat do you suppose the size limit for a company is, for changes to flow from the bottom up?
- Jesin 18y agoThis could be the wrong way of thinking about it. Maybe radical changes can only start within a certain distance from the top, and as the company gets bigger, the bottom moves further away from the top and can no longer initiate those sorts of things. Just a thought.
- mikedouglas 18y agoIf your business plan is "maybe one of us will turn out to be the next Steve Jobs," it may be better just to sell to MSFT ;)
- raganwald 18y agoWhat about offering $24 in 1996? http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1996/swol-01-apple.html http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1996/swol-01-apple.html The board turned Sun down and then went out and paid $400 million to buy NeXT. For all intents and purposes, they paidf $400 million to buy an operating system, hire an OS team headed by Avie Trevanian, and oh yes, provide a nice signing bonus for their new part-time CEO, some guy named Steve. Lots of shareholders grumbled. Of course, that was Apple and this is Yahoo. I don't personally think Jerry has Steve's touch, but I sincerely hope he makes me look like the wrong end of an Equine.
- raganwald 18y agoWhat about offering $24 in 1996? http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1996/swol-01-apple.html http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1996/swol-01-apple.html The board turned Sun down and then went out and paid $400 million to buy NeXT. For all intents and purposes, they paidf $400 million to buy an operating system, hire an OS team headed by Avie Trevanian, and oh yes, provide a nice signing bonus for their new part-time CEO, some guy named Steve. Lots of shareholders grumbled. Of course, that was Apple and this is Yahoo. I don't personally think Jerry has Steve's touch, but I sincerely hope he makes me look like the wrong end of an Equine.