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There are a couple of threads here that argue Marissa Mayer was the problem. I don't think that can be true. Mayer took the reins at Yahoo in 2012. Facebook h
by neilk 5y ago
There are a couple of threads here that argue Marissa Mayer was the problem. I don't think that can be true.
Mayer took the reins at Yahoo in 2012.
Facebook had crushed Flickr in desktop-shared photos by 2009 or so, and over 2010-2012 or so, Instagram had created a whole new photo experience for mobile that Flickr missed. Instagram was acquired by Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012.
Mayer may or may not have exacerbated problems with Flickr. I don't actually know. But there's no way she was the precipitating factor.
Some of the posters blaming her are linking to articles that don't even mention her. The article just happens to use a photo of Mayer because she was the CEO at the time Flickr was sold to SmugMug.
- leoh 5y agoBlaming Marissa Mayer for everything to do with Yahoo really pisses me off. Yahoo was a sinking ship, Mayer tried to save it, she couldn't. The obsession with blaming her feels extremely sexist to me. Regardless of whether it is sexist, people need to lay off of her. Blame is a boring, pathetic game that silently drowns and shuts down the minds of its participants over time. Sometimes people are good in a situation, sometimes they ain't. And sometimes the best person can't save a truly messed up place. I don't understand why this is so difficult to understand.
- YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y agoBecause if you tell everyone that you are gonna "save" something repeatedly, publicy, even if you know you have failed and it turns out that you are doing the opposite people get sceptical about you and your character.
- annadane 5y agoI'm curious what you think about Zuckerberg
- overeater 5y ago> The article just happens to use a photo of Mayer because she was the CEO at the time Flickr was sold to SmugMug. Wait, isn't that just another way of saying that she sold Flicker to SmugMug? If so, she sounds very blamable.