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Yahoo was already dying when she joined. Fundamentally the ‘portal’ model was already doomed and there was little she could do to fix it other than buy a social
by empath75 8y ago
Yahoo was already dying when she joined. Fundamentally the ‘portal’ model was already doomed and there was little she could do to fix it other than buy a social network like tumblr.
Yahoo and aol both had levels of technical debt that are hard to imagine from outside of the company.
- duxup 8y ago>Yahoo was already dying when she joined. She joined it.... that is something she decided to do.
- johntiger1 8y agoOK, then why didn't Yahoo just hire me to run the company? Same outcome but my salary would have been MUCH lower :) In all seriousness, just because Yahoo was in a downspin doesn't mean that leadership can't save the company. Look at John Chen and Blackberry
- pilsetnieks 8y agoOr they needed someone with experience to do a controlled descent with minimum casualties instead of a fiery crash.
- kelnos 8y agoHow was Marissa Mayer that person, though?
- pilsetnieks 8y agoI'm guessing better than GP anyway. Or call it a smokescreen if you will, distracting people by making loud decisions while the board got ready for winding down everything. I mean I'm guessing - we'll never know for sure unless someone from Yahoo's leadership comes forward and lays it all out.
- Phlarp 8y agoLikely an understanding that she would unwind the company gracefully without touching the shiney glass case full of $BABA and a trust that should would execute that understanding faithfully.
- carlivar 8y agoEhh, Yahoo had to gamble big on Marissa. They lost I guess, but it was the correct decision at the time. I think people are forgetting the terrible CEOs prior to that, and the horrible decision not to sell to Microsoft. Remember the Obama style "Hope" posters with her face on them?