Do Yahoo employees really call themselves "Yahoos"?
At Apple Steve just called everybody except for his key people 'idiot'.
What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
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#13Do Yahoo employees really call themselves "Yahoos"?
No different than calling yourself a Googler.
Which itself has silly variants, like Noogler gor new employees or Doogler for dogs. (Google is, explicitly, a dog company. Dogs are welcome at Google facilities. Cats are officially strongly deprecated.)
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#15Sorry, so she raised comfort of some employees (which developer "on a mission to save a company" really needs free food instead of interesting challenges?) and decreased the ability to hire top talent by introducing other employee-unfriendly policies like banning remote work, i.e. working while living on Hawaii, giving superb motivation to stay at Yahoo and see it prosper. The rest seems more like a COO would do and not a strategic CEO. It is still fact that a little team of 5 can accomplish huge things, yet they weren't able to recruit any, while blowing insane money on useless acquihires. And also looking at technical decisions like replacing Netty with node.js in their infrastructure and resulting 4x slowdown and probably increasing operating costs reeks of following useless fads and really useless management.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
No different than calling yourself a Googler.
Which itself has silly variants, like Noogler gor new employees or Doogler for dogs. (Google is, explicitly, a dog company. Dogs are welcome at Google facilities. Cats are officially strongly deprecated.)
Interesting given the number of cat videos this "dog" company distributes.
;)
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#17I 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.
Yeah, Marissa Mayer is how I was first introduced to the concept of the glass cliff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff. I don't think she ever had a chance.
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#18>the company was also stacked with some of the least motivated.
Every company has unmotivated people for the CEO to deal with. Yahoo is not unique in this regard.
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#19That'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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#20Off topic but what would the selling price for Yahoo have to be for MM to be considered a success? 20B, 100B,..
[ignore: Didn't they get an offer from Microsoft a few years ago for 125B or something?]
I think what makes it a huge failure is that 5B is basically what they spent just to acquire one company.
Edit: Based on the replies the first part of my comment is inaccurate.