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Offhand, I don't remember who's on Alphabet's board, but let's take two other leading candidates for Worst Board of All Time: Yahoo's: had an offer from Micros

Offhand, I don't remember who's on Alphabet's board, but let's take two other leading candidates for Worst Board of All Time: Yahoo's: had an offer from Microsoft for ~$33B in 2004 or so, declined, and later hired Marissa Mayer. Eventually sold to Verizon for ~$4B. HP's: hired Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, Léo Apotheker, and then Meg Whitman Modern boards rarely act in any sort of timely manner.

evanelias 4y ago
> Yahoo's: had an offer from Microsoft for ~$33B in 2004 or so, declined, and later hired Marissa Mayer. Eventually sold to Verizon for ~$4B. The former Yahoo assets that Verizon didn't purchase -- Yahoo Japan, plus a large stake in Alibaba, and several other investments -- were liquidated for a ~$40B total return to shareholders over the course of several years. So combined that's a 33% increase over Microsoft's offer. Obviously not a great return over like 15 years, but far from "worst board decision of all time" level either. Microsoft's 2004 board, on the other hand, I have to wonder what they were thinking...