What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold

a_small_island wrote: post #3

dudul wrote: post #2

Do Yahoo employees really call themselves "Yahoos"?

No different than calling yourself a Googler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_(Gulliver%27s_Travels)

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Post by Practicality » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 4:38 PM UTC

dudul wrote: post #2

Do Yahoo employees really call themselves "Yahoos"?

At one point they were yahooligans. I suppose that term fell out of favor at some point.

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Post by toast0 » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 4:39 PM UTC

dudul wrote: post #2

Do Yahoo employees really call themselves "Yahoos"?

Yes, when I was there (2004-2011), my job title was Technical Yahoo!, but nowadays they've lost the punctuation. The security team was called the Paranoids. Lots of little goofy names.

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Post by boterock » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 4:40 PM UTC

I have to admit that when she started in Yahoo, they tried to do their best to not suck that much, but I think it was too late. In a time where internet and word of mouth can punish very hard bad PR/bad UX, they tried with Tumblr showing they weren't going to screw up anymore, but still they couldn't go back to what they were before.

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Post by wehadfun » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 4:41 PM UTC

Off topic but what would the selling price for Yahoo have to be for MM to be considered a success? 20B, 100B,..

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Post by pboutros » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 4:41 PM UTC

That's a good read. Just goes to show that it's important to remember people's humanity, especially when all the cards are stacked against them. People have said some really ugly stuff about MM.

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Post by soperj » Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 4:42 PM UTC

boterock wrote: post #7

I have to admit that when she started in Yahoo, they tried to do their best to not suck that much, but I think it was too late. In a time where internet and word of mouth can punish very hard bad PR/bad UX, they tried with Tumblr showing they weren't going to screw up anymore, but still they couldn't go back to what they were before.

and yet, Craigslist.