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I know so much of this is a tongue-in-cheek suggestion. It's one of those, "yeah I meant that" if it turns out right, and, "no, I'm clearly enacting poe's law"
by chrisacky 14y ago
I know so much of this is a tongue-in-cheek suggestion.
It's one of those, "yeah I meant that" if it turns out right, and, "no, I'm clearly enacting poe's law", when it's wrong scenarios. "I'm clearly joking wink".
Anyway, you could have reduced all of those ten points in to a single bullet point and I still would have upvoted this story.
> Make a huge sign with the phrase ‘the premier digital media company’. Then make a video of you running a bulldozer over it crushing that sign. No one knows what that phrase means. Come up with a goal that people can actually visualize.
This is sooo true. Marissa needs to grab this opportunity and ride the Yahoo-bull-horn for all it's worth.
Ignore investors... Reinvent the entire company that you have stepped up to take charge of.
Don't do what BB's spineless CEO did, and start throwing out quotes like "not much has to change". http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-22/Blackberry-RIM/52748290/1 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-22/Blackberr...
Marissa needs to change everyones perspective of what Yahoo was, and what it can be.
Yahoo are still on my shitlist from the whole FB debacle. Mayer has already shown that Yahoo can still be "cool", so reinvent everything that once was the old Yahoo.
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- sriramk 14y agoOP here. My issue with that phrase is that it means both nothing and everything. You can justify any product saying that it fits in with the vision of being the 'premium digital media' company. I once made the point internally that pretty much any website on the internet would fit within that umbrella.
- trotsky 14y agoIs the board changing? Not that I've heard. New CEO's are still beholden to their boards, and from what I can see the yahoo board is out to lunch.
- yuhong 14y agoIt changed when Thompson was forced out.
- splicer 14y agoMinor rant: "</end major rant>" made me cringe. I suggest "<major-rant>blah blah blah</major-rant>" instead. :p