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Yahoo seems to be trying to dig themselves out of a hole by standing in the hole and throwing sand out. Is Yahoo trying to set up some kind of 'corporate rehab

by RyanZAG 13y ago

Yahoo seems to be trying to dig themselves out of a hole by standing in the hole and throwing sand out. Is Yahoo trying to set up some kind of 'corporate rehabilitation' clinic where they will take these scruffy startup employees and turn them into drones slaving away on methods to get users to click on ads 5% more? I can understand acquiring a startup when you plan to use their product and will keep the founders working on it, but something like this just rings of a failure to understand human behavior. The guys getting a fat payout and corporate safety net while working on some random project they didn't even agree to work on are no longer the same guys who made the startup.

yuhong 13y ago
I don't think Marissa intends the work conditions to be this bad.
smacktoward 13y ago
I could see the logic in buying up end-of-their-tether companies if Y! was getting them at a fire-sale price. Being able to buy undervalued assets at fire-sale prices is exactly why anyone buys a company that's about to fail. But there's not a lot of evidence that they're getting the kind of prices you'd expect them to be able to get from people whose alternative to selling is going out of business, which is (to put it charitably) puzzling.
badclient 13y ago
The guys getting a fat payout and corporate safety net while working on some random project they didn't even agree to work on are no longer the same guys who made the startup. Yahoo shareholders should pool together and stick this on a billboard outside Yahoo HQ.
outside1234 13y ago
its worse than that. these guys are just going to start in on their next startup, but with benefits, all while pretending to turn the bigco wheel.
- badclient 13y ago
  its worse when these guys that burned through $40M+ are going to be backed by their investors again at the expense of more worthy startup founders with less experience fundraising.

by RyanZAG 13y ago

yuhong 13y ago

I don't think Marissa intends the work conditions to be this bad.

smacktoward 13y ago

I could see the logic in buying up end-of-their-tether companies if Y! was getting them at a fire-sale price. Being able to buy undervalued assets at fire-sale prices is exactly why anyone buys a company that's about to fail. But there's not a lot of evidence that they're getting the kind of prices you'd expect them to be able to get from people whose alternative to selling is going out of business, which is (to put it charitably) puzzling.

badclient 13y ago

The guys getting a fat payout and corporate safety net while working on some random project they didn't even agree to work on are no longer the same guys who made the startup. Yahoo shareholders should pool together and stick this on a billboard outside Yahoo HQ.

outside1234 13y ago

its worse than that. these guys are just going to start in on their next startup, but with benefits, all while pretending to turn the bigco wheel.

badclient 13y ago
its worse when these guys that burned through $40M+ are going to be backed by their investors again at the expense of more worthy startup founders with less experience fundraising.