I've thought for some time that Yahoo! should have moved into the streaming video business, including emulating Netflix and producing original content on a subscription basis. In the very least it would have been a way to lure people to their website and get them to spend a lot more time within/adjacent to the Yahoo! ecosystem. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure if Yahoo! has ever done anything video related. I w…
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I agree and disagree with your point. It's incredibly hard to determine how much good a new CEO has done, and how much is inertia. I think that's a strong argument against the incredibly high CEO pay in contemporary companies, it dramatically underestimates the importance of the work of the rank and file. That being said, if you ARE going to judge her by contemporary CEO standards, the question is, would anyone else…
If no one could have gotten better results, I can think of many capable people who could have gotten similar results for a lot cheap. Yahoo! is almost paying MM $400 million and the $110 million exec who stayed about 11 months she fired. For all the Meritocracy talk about general foot soldiers, the SV execs seem to get a lot of "Participation Trophies".
She's making more than Tim Cook? No way
Re: Yahoo planning 10% layoffs as early as this month, report says
#93Don't kill Tumblr please. It is my go to source for porn.
There's still Bing Videos[0]. It's super effective!
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Mayer will be walking away with a $158M golden parachute[0], and will undoubtedly have another nice executive position lined up in no time. It's amazing how much respect she's garnered in the tech community. From all the public info on her, she doesn't seem to have much product vision - rather, she's just a manager who's good at making data-driven decisions (the infamous "41 shades of blue"[1]) to incrementally optim…
I agree and disagree with your point. It's incredibly hard to determine how much good a new CEO has done, and how much is inertia. I think that's a strong argument against the incredibly high CEO pay in contemporary companies, it dramatically underestimates the importance of the work of the rank and file. That being said, if you ARE going to judge her by contemporary CEO standards, the question is, would anyone else…
>That being said, if you ARE going to judge her by contemporary CEO standards, the question is, would anyone else have done better?
Could anyone possibly done worse? She makes Elop look competent.
Re: Yahoo planning 10% layoffs as early as this month, report says
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mayer will be walking away with a $158M golden parachute[0], and will undoubtedly have another nice executive position lined up in no time. It's amazing how much respect she's garnered in the tech community. From all the public info on her, she doesn't seem to have much product vision - rather, she's just a manager who's good at making data-driven decisions (the infamous "41 shades of blue"[1]) to incrementally optim…
I agree and disagree with your point. It's incredibly hard to determine how much good a new CEO has done, and how much is inertia. I think that's a strong argument against the incredibly high CEO pay in contemporary companies, it dramatically underestimates the importance of the work of the rank and file. That being said, if you ARE going to judge her by contemporary CEO standards, the question is, would anyone else…
>That being said, if you ARE going to judge her by contemporary CEO standards, the question is, would anyone else have done better?
Could anyone possibly done worse? She makes Elop look competent.
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You are just like more to drown in self pity then do something for yourself. It's much more convenient. Much easier. I grew up same as you. Probably much worse. Hard work, perseverance and a lot of reflection helped me overcome the shortcomings you deem insurmountable.
Fuck off. You don't know anything about me or the horrors I grew up with, how hard I've worked, or a single thing about me. You and your kind are why it's so hard to go through life. You can't relate because you were not so unlucky. This is the first and last time I have ever spoken to an HN member like this, and I say that not out of pretense, but to illustrate both the gravity and the finality of my background that…
Yes, you are a very special little snowflake. Nobody overcame hardships in life.
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> That being said, if you ARE going to judge her by contemporary CEO standards, the question is, would anyone else have done better? The first mistake the Yahoo board made was to decide that product innovation would save them. In reality, they should've brought in an ex-consultant or ex-banker who could chop off pieces of the business and sell them to the highest bidder (essentially, what's going to happen now). The…
> The first mistake the Yahoo board made was to decide that product innovation would save them. If they had given some proper direction to their innovation, perhaps that could have saved them. One stupid decision they made back in 2006 was to shutdown geo-cities. The data hype hadn't even begun at that time and with some vision they could have turned geo-cities into a thing similar to what cloud-hosted services like…
They got rid of all the visionary people a while ago.
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Fuck off. You don't know anything about me or the horrors I grew up with, how hard I've worked, or a single thing about me. You and your kind are why it's so hard to go through life. You can't relate because you were not so unlucky. This is the first and last time I have ever spoken to an HN member like this, and I say that not out of pretense, but to illustrate both the gravity and the finality of my background that…
Yes, you are a very special little snowflake. Nobody overcame hardships in life.
Haha. Perhaps this exchange will be able to explain some things to some people, after I really say what I'm going to be saying.
It's such a perfect illustration of the entire life, start to finish, like a waking nightmare.
Goodbye.
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I'm surprised by the support you're getting, because the HN hivemind fully supports it when founders exit with 50-10000x what rank and file gets. I wonder if HN doesn't see a problem with founders because they all hope to be a billionaire founder themselves one day, but they don't personally relate to hired or big-company CEOs.
Except when a startup founder fails at their job the company is usually shut down or the acquihire leaves them with a small payout. When a startup makes it big, many of the rank and file have large payouts as well. American CEOs get paid obscenely cartoonishly evil amounts of money for running companies into the ground. Even when the company does really well and they get massive stock grants, the rank and file get no…
> the rank and file get nothing.
They get less than nothing, they get fired.