In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo
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In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo
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Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo
#2A lot of the changes listed in this article are as the title suggests "Googley". I am not that surprised by these actions though. It's easy to get used to the free food and the Friday meetings and then miss them elsewhere.
That said, if I was working at one of Yahoo's remote offices, I'd feel pretty left out of the free food / etc. Do HQ Engineers work any harder than the others?)
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#3This is great. You need to start with foundational changes that positively impact the culture and morale of the staff. Providing free food is a good basic that should happen.
There needs to be a revitalization of the Yahoo staff if there is to be any success.
Then you take those thousands of reinspirired/invigorated people and point them at a problem.
Finding the right problem though is, well, the problem.
Personally, I have said several times here on HN that Yahoo should take YCombinator as their new directional model.
They should be seeking to foster startups in the valley VERY aggressively. Invest, incubate, incorporate.
Take the growth of the startup communities and incorporate their innovations into the Yahoo brand...
Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo
#4A smart move.
Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo
#5Ah, yes, the new Caesar is throwing bread to the plebeians to silence the restless. What I am wondering is when she is going to start feeding the top two tiers of management to the lions. After all, the shareholders need calming as well.
Tick tock, tick-tock.
Re: In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo
#6Looks like Marissa has learned the lesson told by Steve Blank in his famous essay, the elves leave middle earth
http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-eart...
It has bought her time with the engineers while she decides what to do.
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#7Yahoo gave up on being a technology leader when they killed their own search. If I was Mayer I would buy DuckDuckGo and say fuck it, we're taking on Google.
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#8Definitely a smart decision by Marissa. The savings from feeding employees is definitely outweighed by the productivity and morale gained from satisfied employees. Make your employees feel proud and good to work there.
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#9I'd like to work for / with her.
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#10Yahoo gave up on being a technology leader when they killed their own search. If I was Mayer I would buy DuckDuckGo and say fuck it, we're taking on Google.
I know that YC has a stake in the Duck and pardon my ignorance but what is so "racketish-science" here in DDG that Marissa and bunch of Google engineers couldn't come up with on their own terms, without having to reach out to Y! wallet?