>In regards to Marissa, I personally believe that the Glass Cliff is real The glass cliff didn't make her buy Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars only for it to be

>In regards to Marissa, I personally believe that the Glass Cliff is real The glass cliff didn't make her buy Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars only for it to be essentially worthless a few years later. I also think people are a bit harsh on what situation Yahoo was in. They were still profitable, had a ton of users, and plenty of cash in the bank. Sure, it was being left behind but there was plenty of juice there to do something to become relevant again. In the five years she was CEO there's not really anything you can point to as a success. It raises the question of how important she was to the string of successful products that she headed at Google.