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Here is what she will do: 1. Cut. Cut as much as possible. 2. Refocus on mobile. May be partner with nokia or microsft or other falling company to provide default content to other platform 3. When yahoo is stable enough. Sell or merge the company.
I would assume that owning a large amount of stock of one of your major competitors, as the CEO, could create some conflicts of interest for shareholders...no?
I am not insinuating that this is some sinister plot by Mayer to boost her Google stock holdings - I don't think there is anything she could do at Yahoo to do that, other than possibly shift their entire ad budget to Adwords...but even that.
Either way, I would love to know those sorts of 'quirky' implications on such a decision.
Especially given that the vast majority of her compensation is now in Yahoo stock.
I also wonder if it would be a 'legal' issue, or a moral issue.
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I saw the video. It seems a very silly thing to do -- ever since I first saw that video I've been trying to understand Crockford's angle, and I just cannot. However, feronull seems in favour of it, so I'd like to know why. Forking a project isn't a healthy thing to do, unless there's something seriously wrong with the existing community (e.g. XFree86). As far as I can tell: * The nodejs community is healthy and vibra…
> Forking a project isn't a healthy thing to do, unless there's something seriously wrong with the existing community Or you have goals which are substantially different from the goals of the original project. Lets not forget that parts of Android are 'forked' from Linux (and were later merged back).
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She should have done it by G+ hangout (my opinion)
Or Yahoo 360. What? It never launched? Well, she could do it on Yahoo Mash. Huh? Got shut down? Or she could post a link on Yahoo Buzz. What's that? Also dead? Crud, maybe she could post it to facebook.
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"the risk for her is just stunning" What risk? She's already achieved complete financial security from here time at Google. At Yahoo! she'll be taking the reins of a company that still attracts a massive userbase but is aching for someone with a fresh viewpoint on how to transform the company. Nothing buy potential IMO.
And later in Oct, She will go on maternity leave. So no Yahoo head ache for some time. http://www.firstpost.com/tech/yahoo-marissa-mayer-is-first-p...
http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/16/mayer-yaho...
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Eh, I like Marissa, and I've worked on projects (the 2010 websearch visual redesign, and doodles) for which she was the executive sponsor. No, she's not a nice person, and most likely she does not give a shit about you as a person. But she is very often right about her design opinions, and when she's not, she'll listen to data. I don't think Yahoo particularly needs a nice person as CEO right now. Their culture is dy…
I disagreed with nearly everything I ever heard Marissa say related to design, especially her over reliance on A/B testing to inform design. I think she is one of the main reasons Google products tend to feel like they are designed by engineers.
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I see it as the wrestling with a pig problem. If you wrestle with a pig, both of you get dirty, and the pig enjoys it. Meyer's a superstar right now. Yahoo's had an anti-Midas touch on several people who've attempted to steer it right.
I really don't understand why people are saying she won't get a reputation hit from this if she fails. Every other CEO trying to steer Yahoo right so far in recent history has a black eye and had to leave in relative disgrace. None of them had the superstar status that she has right now, but the fact is, none of them were allowed the conclusion "well, Yahoo was just too screwed up anyway". I'm not convinced that she'…
Now she could fail in ways that are so bad that it does harm her reputation, certainly. I tend to agree with those that think as long as she doesn't fail for reasons that make her look really bad, her reputation won't suffer too much.
Also if Yahoo is marginally successful she may get an outsized boost - due to others failing to do even that.
This will play out much like Armstrong at AOL. Lots of flailing around, another attempt at altering Yahoo's trajectory, and ultimately a further devalued company (not specifically because of anything Mayer will do, but because there's nothing that can stop Yahoo's erosion). At some point the conclusion needs to be reached that the core of Yahoo is the problem. The products that generate the bulk of their sales are at…
I wonder what advice Michael Dell has for Yahoo.
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I see it as the wrestling with a pig problem. If you wrestle with a pig, both of you get dirty, and the pig enjoys it. Meyer's a superstar right now. Yahoo's had an anti-Midas touch on several people who've attempted to steer it right.
Actually, your metaphor and the pattern of ruining hopefuls fits a pattern from Greek Mythology. (Other tough guys try to capture/defeat/kill a fearsome monster, but Hercules shows he's an uber-stud by finally doing it) So Yahoo's now the Erymanthian boar?
Time to divert Los Gatos Creek and the Guadalupe River. But I think the stench is stronger than them.