Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer

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Post by xmpir » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 11:05 AM UTC

Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer
washingtonpost.com

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Post by omegant » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 11:55 AM UTC

Honest question, could somebody please explain why a big corporation like Yahoo, doesn't have some kind of cliff and progresive compensation? It's the Article accurate?

Re: Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer

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Post by sillysaurus3 » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 11:56 AM UTC

I've been wondering: How's Marissa Meyer doing as CEO? I haven't heard much about Yahoo recently except that they acquired some companies in order to get talent in the mobile space. It's been about 1.75 years since she became CEO. Is that enough time for a non-Steve Jobs CEO to change the trajectory of a company?

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Post by goldenkey » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 12:06 PM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #3

I've been wondering: How's Marissa Meyer doing as CEO? I haven't heard much about Yahoo recently except that they acquired some companies in order to get talent in the mobile space. It's been about 1.75 years since she became CEO. Is that enough time for a non-Steve Jobs CEO to change the trajectory of a company?

The article mentions that she was involved in his hiring.

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Post by anonu » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 12:07 PM UTC

omegant wrote: post #2

Honest question, could somebody please explain why a big corporation like Yahoo, doesn't have some kind of cliff and progresive compensation? It's the Article accurate?

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/0001193125141... Page 83 of the preliminary filing shows that exact number. Its accurate!

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Post by Theodores » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 12:08 PM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #3

I've been wondering: How's Marissa Meyer doing as CEO? I haven't heard much about Yahoo recently except that they acquired some companies in order to get talent in the mobile space. It's been about 1.75 years since she became CEO. Is that enough time for a non-Steve Jobs CEO to change the trajectory of a company?

You are forgetting: Marissa redesigned the logo! All by herself!!!

Seriously though, what do Yahoo actually do? The mail has gone the way of 'compuserve' in that you don't very often get to see a yahoo address in an email these days. Search was something they just gave up on, then there portal style homepage, does anyone actually go there?

They should have stuck with search, it was something that they were reasonably good at, but, having dropped that it is now not an easy game to get back in to.

Perhaps they should just give up on being a branded entity and become a faceless holding company.

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 12:12 PM UTC

I'd have done it for them for half that :-)

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Post by EA » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 12:15 PM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #3

I've been wondering: How's Marissa Meyer doing as CEO? I haven't heard much about Yahoo recently except that they acquired some companies in order to get talent in the mobile space. It's been about 1.75 years since she became CEO. Is that enough time for a non-Steve Jobs CEO to change the trajectory of a company?

Flickr has 1 TB of free storage. Old Flickr Pro accounts have "unlimited" storage space.

She bought Tumblr.

Will she release some hardware?

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Post by stingraycharles » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 12:18 PM UTC

Theodores wrote: post #6

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #3

I've been wondering: How's Marissa Meyer doing as CEO? I haven't heard much about Yahoo recently except that they acquired some companies in order to get talent in the mobile space. It's been about 1.75 years since she became CEO. Is that enough time for a non-Steve Jobs CEO to change the trajectory of a company?

You are forgetting: Marissa redesigned the logo! All by herself!!! Seriously though, what do Yahoo actually do? The mail has gone the way of 'compuserve' in that you don't very often get to see a yahoo address in an email these days. Search was something they just gave up on, then there portal style homepage, does anyone actually go there? They should have stuck with search, it was something that they were reasonably…

I have to disagree. I'm currently in Asia and /everyone/ appears to be using a yahoo email. I even created some gmail addresses for them, but it just doesn't appeal to them.

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Post by josefresco » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 12:19 PM UTC

Theodores wrote: post #6

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #3

I've been wondering: How's Marissa Meyer doing as CEO? I haven't heard much about Yahoo recently except that they acquired some companies in order to get talent in the mobile space. It's been about 1.75 years since she became CEO. Is that enough time for a non-Steve Jobs CEO to change the trajectory of a company?

You are forgetting: Marissa redesigned the logo! All by herself!!! Seriously though, what do Yahoo actually do? The mail has gone the way of 'compuserve' in that you don't very often get to see a yahoo address in an email these days. Search was something they just gave up on, then there portal style homepage, does anyone actually go there? They should have stuck with search, it was something that they were reasonably…

Meyer's pitch to Yahoo! was that she was product focused. The guy they passed over for CEO wanted to turn Yahoo! into a "media" company, with a focus on advertising. I can't say which approach is better, but the clock is ticking for Meyer, albeit slowly because of Alibaba.