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Why don't they pivot ? They sure will be having some awesome engineers in there

• dagw 8y ago
  Yahoo hasn't done anything but pivot for the past several years. Pivoting in itself doesn't do anything.
  • qubex 8y ago
    Continual pivoting has a name... it's called a death spiral.
    • tk75x 8y ago
      Only if you keep pivoting in the same direction.
      • qubex 8y ago
        If you have equal changes of pivoting in any given direction and use a random number generator to choose which direction to go in, it's called Brownian Motion.
• dandare 8y ago
  A startup I worked for was acquired by AOL, all the good engineers left as soon as possible. Bureaucracy, lack of any vision, slow at everything. AOL was a media company, not a software development company.
  • empath75 8y ago
    Yeah Aol had some good devops folks here and there but it was not an engineering culture.
    • qubex 8y ago
      I remember they totally gutted WinAmp, for example.
• mrweasel 8y ago
  Pivot to what exactly? Suggesting that they just "pivot" is like a rich person looking at the family living out of a cardboard box under the bridge asking: "Why don't they just get more money?" Sure both Yahoo and AOL must have talented people working there, but that's kinda useless if you don't make them work on profitable projects. Finding the profitable ideas is the hard part.
• mikestew 8y ago
  From where I’m standing, they’ve pivoted so much they’ve corkscrewed into the ground.