Hmm... I understand the post's point, but it starts off so flawed that it's difficult to take any of it seriously. Yahoo does not have a super-duper market ca

Hmm... I understand the post's point, but it starts off so flawed that it's difficult to take any of it seriously. Yahoo does not have a super-duper market cap; Alibaba does and Yahoo owns 40% of Alibaba [1]; Yahoo certainly isn't a small company, but it's more like a unhealthy, unhappy, declining $6B company. Big companies have big company issues because managing huge groups of people is a complex process. I like startups and bloggers as much as the next g(uy|al), but startups are not wonderful tonics that larger companies can buy to cure their ailments. One of the exact reasons lots of folks like startups is that we can avoid those issues. The post suggests that you can take a bunch of people who probably don't want to work in a big company, pull them in to a big company and have everything go well... [1] http://www.quora.com/If-Yahoo-owns-40-of-Alibaba-and-thats-worth-30B-then-why-is-Yahoos-market-cap-only-20B http://www.quora.com/If-Yahoo-owns-40-of-Alibaba-and-thats-w...