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It's not really useful to look at a bunch of (relatively) small acquisitions made by a Yahoo run by very different people almost a decade ago and try to extrapo
by mattmaroon 13y ago
It's not really useful to look at a bunch of (relatively) small acquisitions made by a Yahoo run by very different people almost a decade ago and try to extrapolate anything from it today. I don't think anyone would disagree Yahoo has been horribly mismanaged over the years. That at least may not be the case now.
More useful is to look at large, more recent purchases like Alibaba and Right Media which are doing quite well. A company is far more likely to let a $35m acquisition slip down the drain than a $1b one.
- jeroen 13y agoI agree, but the writer wasn't extrapolating to today. The article is more than 2 years old. Bartz was still running Yahoo!
- tlrobinson 13y agoTrue, but whoever posted it to Hacker News right after it was announced Yahoo is buying Tumblr certainly was.
- eternalbasileus 13y agoRight - my thought, too. Especially coming from one of those companies that was acquired after the article was published. It hasn't all been roses, but we haven't been left to wither, either.
- prawn 13y agoWriter wasn't, but was the submitter?
- mattmaroon 13y agoEven still, there had been numerous CEO changes at that point. Koogle, Semel, Yang, Bartz. And even with the same CEO, there's a difference between a $30m acquisition and a $1b.