> Is it strange that people defend Mayer so much ? I've found just that opposite, that people generally seem critical of her time spent at Yahoo so far. Common

> Is it strange that people defend Mayer so much ? I've found just that opposite, that people generally seem critical of her time spent at Yahoo so far. Common targets are her seemingly haphazard app acquisition strategy, or how she frequently is late to meetings or misses them entirely, or how she has hired the wrong people high-profile positions. And often the conversation steers more towards her personality quirks. Here was a particularly damning article published in the New York Times in December: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe... It's very critical and I didn't see many people rushing to her defense after it was published. Here's another one: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/yahoos-dynamic-ceo-boring-plan http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/yahoos-dynamic-ce... Where do you see all this defense of her?