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> Sure, she owns the failed revamp though. Thank you! That's the most important point. > It’s really weird to be ratholing on Flickr as if it was the reason f

> Sure, she owns the failed revamp though. Thank you! That's the most important point. > It’s really weird to be ratholing on Flickr as if it was the reason for Yahoo failing. Flickr is the topic of this thread. I don't think Flickr is the reason Yahoo failed, but I do think Marissa Mayer hastened Flickr's demise, and I do believe Ms Mayer's incompetence was the reason Yahoo couldn't be turned around. If you believe Ms Mayer was brought in to "manage a burning building" as opposed to turning it around, please read this story: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-wh...

dpark 5y ago
> Thank you! That's the most important point. It’s really not. Flickr was already circling the drain like the rest of Yahoo. Mayer’s revamp failed but it’s not why block Yahoo failed. It’s not even why Flickr failed. Your pinning of the broader Flickr failure on Mayer is revisionist. The whole reason it needed a revamp was because was already dying. > Flickr is the topic of this thread. It wasn’t the topic of the comment I replied to from glenstein. We had a whole sub thread about Yahoo in general. > I don't think Flickr is the reason Yahoo failed, but I do think Marissa Mayer hastened Flickr's demise, and I do believe Ms Mayer's incompetence was the reason Yahoo couldn't be turned around. If you believe Ms Mayer was brought in to "manage a burning building" as opposed to turning it around, please read this story: There’s something really off about claiming that Mayer hastened the demise of Yahoo! and then linking to an article essentially saying she should have gutted it sooner. (Maybe there was something buried at the bottom? I stopped reading because it was all old and well worn.)

dpark 5y ago

> Thank you! That's the most important point. It’s really not. Flickr was already circling the drain like the rest of Yahoo. Mayer’s revamp failed but it’s not why block Yahoo failed. It’s not even why Flickr failed. Your pinning of the broader Flickr failure on Mayer is revisionist. The whole reason it needed a revamp was because was already dying. > Flickr is the topic of this thread. It wasn’t the topic of the comment I replied to from glenstein. We had a whole sub thread about Yahoo in general. > I don't think Flickr is the reason Yahoo failed, but I do think Marissa Mayer hastened Flickr's demise, and I do believe Ms Mayer's incompetence was the reason Yahoo couldn't be turned around. If you believe Ms Mayer was brought in to "manage a burning building" as opposed to turning it around, please read this story: There’s something really off about claiming that Mayer hastened the demise of Yahoo! and then linking to an article essentially saying she should have gutted it sooner. (Maybe there was something buried at the bottom? I stopped reading because it was all old and well worn.)