Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo? • Hacker News Board

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by devonbarrett » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:13 PM UTC

No - the opposite; but in the meantime lets place bets on how many companies she will buy. My bet is 40.

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by IvyMike » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:17 PM UTC

I thought Yahoo was a goner for sure.

On the day Mayer took over, if you sat me down and said "Michael, discuss the most optimistic yet still possible scenario for Yahoo's future", I would have dismissed the current course as implausible.

That doesn't mean they're saved, but Mayer as a CEO has exceeded my (very low) expectations.

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by pavs » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:23 PM UTC

devonbarrett wrote: post #11

No - the opposite; but in the meantime lets place bets on how many companies she will buy. My bet is 40.

There is a method in this madness, if you are implying that she is buying companies for shits and giggles, I think you are wrong.

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by kevinconroy » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:24 PM UTC

kmfrk wrote: post #10

znowi wrote: post #8

No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

if title.endswith("?"): block(submission)

Does this mean we'll finally block these kinds of submissions?!

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by fmsf » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:26 PM UTC

I recently declined a job at yahoo UK becouse their hiring process was a mega mess. It took nearly 4 months from first interview till I got a proposal, and the engineers there seemed to be demoralised a lot.

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by Macsenour » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:28 PM UTC

The exact path to survival is hers, but to save any company you MUST change things. Did Jobs change Apple when he came back? Of course!

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by kevinconroy » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:29 PM UTC

A: I don't know and neither does Business Week

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by tsax » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:38 PM UTC

znowi wrote: post #8

No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

Awesome. I was just about to post this. I almost wish to kill a few hours scraping tens of thousands of headlines with question marks to find out whether these could be answered with a negative. I suspect > 85% could be answered so.

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by foobarqux » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

The smart (inside) money says no.

Loeb's hedge fund who appointed Mayer has sold their stake and has removed its directors from the board.

Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

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Post by dr_ » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

Who knows, but I can say this. I've started using Yahoo mail regularly again, and I've started giving it out as my preferred email contact again. And, at least until ios 7 comes out, I've been using Yahoos weather app pretty regularly. I wouldn't have been doing either of these one year ago.