> Mayer prefers to focus on the company’s increase in Web traffic. She won’t give numbers but says it’s enough to erase the entire decline from the previous year.
Probably the most costly acquisition of Web traffic ever.
Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?
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Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?
#22I 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.
That's a ridiculous amount of time, nobody would wait that long unless they are changing jobs and are not in a hurry.
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#23I 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.
Agree that part of their success is that they're setting low expectations. When Meyer said "We promise not to screw it up"[1] after dropping >$1 billion on Tumblr, I thought to myself "Way to set the bar low, Marissa."
Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?
#24A: I don't know and neither does Business Week
I suppose we all love the game of conjecture though. It is certainly a favorite past time of many.
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#25The smart (inside) money says no. Loeb's hedge fund who appointed Mayer has sold their stake and has removed its directors from the board.
where could one get this kind of info for the traded companies?
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#26No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
Note to self: start submitting HN posts titled, "Is [znowi] a useful HN contributor?"
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#27No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
Note to self: start submitting HN posts titled, "Is [znowi] a useful HN contributor?"
I know you're making a joke, but https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
;)
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#28A: I don't know and neither does Business Week
Before reading the article I'm pretty sure that you're right.
Re: Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?
#29she's been very successful due to her good looks in a 90% nerdy male profession
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#30“Name another Internet giant that went through three years of decline and then started to grow again,”
This captures the difficulty of their situation. If she turns it around, she'll be one of the Valley's great CEOs.
"most recently, it languished under Carol Bartz and Scott Thompson as a dot-com relic known mostly for losing its top talent to competitors."
When top talent choose to join Yahoo instead of Google, Facebook and Twitter, that will be a sign that things have changed. This doesn't count acquihires.