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The next person to win the Yahoo CEO lottery.

• jeffrallen 5y ago
  The Lottery, you say? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery
  • rzzzt 5y ago
    I remembered that there is a similar sci-fi story, and wanted to ask here first, but fortunately found what I think it was: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/204982/1950s-science-fiction-story-about-a-lottery-where-a-person-is-selected-each-day https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/204982/1950s-scien...
• gremloni 5y ago
  What’s marissa doing these days after running yahoo into the ground? Somewhere else satisfying a quota?
  • zrth 5y ago
    What a misogynist comment: What makes you say that Mayer got hired for being female?
    • refenestrator 5y ago
      They did play it up quite a bit, I remember being annoyed at the stories of how tough she was with her in-office daycare and support staff for her newborn while other non-celebrity women I know had to order their whole lives around a pumping schedule.
      • zrth 5y ago
        How does you being annoyed by the reporting on a CEO's daycare situation, let us deduce that this CEO was not hired based on merit?
        • gremloni 5y ago
          She didn’t compete. She was a placement pick coming from google where she was essentially a non contributing member of the google adwords leadership team.
        • refenestrator 5y ago
          Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that. I don't think she was a diversity checkbox so much as a 'small world in silicon valley' unmeritorious hire, with the diversity checkbox as maybe a small plus.
  • danielmarkbruce 5y ago
    Yahoo was in all kinds of trouble when she took over. I'd argue she made a stupid mistake taking the job, not that they made a stupid mistake choosing her (whatever the motivation).
    • effingwewt 5y ago
      If it was on a downward trajectory she pointed the nose straight down and went full throttle. I still remember how mad my then wife was about the childcare fiasco.