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“Name another Internet giant that went through three years of decline and then started to grow again,” This captures the difficulty of their situation. If she
by mathattack 13y ago
“Name another Internet giant that went through three years of decline and then started to grow again,”
This captures the difficulty of their situation. If she turns it around, she'll be one of the Valley's great CEOs.
"most recently, it languished under Carol Bartz and Scott Thompson as a dot-com relic known mostly for losing its top talent to competitors."
When top talent choose to join Yahoo instead of Google, Facebook and Twitter, that will be a sign that things have changed. This doesn't count acquihires.
- general_failure 13y agoTalent follows money. If yahoo pays more than Google, talent will come.
- mathattack 13y agoSome of the comp is in equity, so the talent has to believe in equity. People also join firms for brand image, and future career opportunities. The talent has to believe in that too.