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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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Post by akg_67 »

perryh2 wrote: post #5
rw2 wrote: post #2

Yahoo's fantasy football was super popular, why was no effort put in to make a competing product to Draft King? Tumblr acquisition was not a good one. It was too web oriented and users were moving more to mobile. It takes a long time to reverse momentum, and to try a lot of things.

I work on Daily Fantasy at Yahoo and would just like to point out that we do compete with DK/Fanduel :) https://yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/

Daily fantasy has very annoying pop up on Yahoo! Sports. Also, I guess daily fantasy product resulted in killing of NCAAF and NFL picks against Yahoo! Experts and Yahoo! Users. The Picks link goes to message "something went wrong, we are working on it" page now for several weeks. Instead it Should be 404 and Picks link removed.

Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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Post by taurath »

There hasn't really been a "focus" at Yahoo in a long while - it feels like the new HP, where almost all the folks who built previously successful businesses within it have moved on, while at the same time the company is too big and integrated to make any meaningful changes or grow new profit centers (given that their cash cow is stalling).

Its corporate stagflation. They are too diversified and have too many products to move quickly, generate almost no enthusiasm between either users (all old guard) or engineers/employees, and there's very little that any executive or employee can do.

Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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Post by paulsutter »

steve19 wrote: post #9

"Ms. Mayer called a meeting with senior executives in August and asked them to sign a written agreement to stay with the company for at least three more years, according to two people familiar with the meeting." Is such an agreement enforceable? Or is this some meaningless pledge? If you want people to stay, give them a decent financial incentive.

Driven people want purpose and to be part of a team thats making an impact.

It's toxic to demand written agreement to stay. The request itself says "Things are so bad that nobody wants to be here. Maybe if we all sign this paper, then at least we're all in the same boat".

(Side note: money is among the least effective incentive. Waiting for a large incentive payout just makes the time more miserable.)

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