If you followed the other links on that page it becomes a little clearer ( http://www.businessinsider.com/after-only-15-months-marissa-mayer-fired-her-first-ma

If you followed the other links on that page it becomes a little clearer ( http://www.businessinsider.com/after-only-15-months-marissa-mayer-fired-her-first-major-hire-2014-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/after-only-15-months-marissa-... http://www.businessinsider.com/how-yahoos-new-coo-got-his-62-million-pay-package-in-7-simple-steps-2012-10?utm_source=hearst&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=allverticals http://www.businessinsider.com/how-yahoos-new-coo-got-his-62... and http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-coo-henrique-de-castro-2012-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-coo-henrique-de-castro-... ). By the way I recommend you to watch that 2-minute video fragment in the last one. It really helps to get grasp of what is he like. So, first off it isn't that surprising that he gets all that money after all (it's kinda natural because he is fired). Also, as he is fired, his work at Yahoo obviously wasn't worth that kind of money. But while these money aren't disaster for Yahoo, just to think of it — it's huge. I wonder what he was actually supposed to do to somebody (Mayer) would like to pay him that kind of money so he would work for Yahoo. I mean, yeah, we all know that operating business like Yahoo isn't kids game, but just think of it: why nobody gives you that money so you would work for them?