Can Marissa Mayer save Yahoo?

Post by d23 » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 7:02 PM UTC

kevinconroy wrote: post #14

kmfrk wrote: post #10

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

Post by foobarqux » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 7:21 PM UTC

boomzilla wrote: post #25

foobarqux wrote: post #19

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.

where could one get this kind of info for the traded companies?

Post by general_failure » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 8:16 PM UTC

mathattack wrote: post #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, Face…

Post by twerquie » Thu, Aug 01, 2013, 11:14 PM UTC

leothekim wrote: post #23

IvyMike wrote: post #12

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.

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." [1] http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/50902111638/tumblr-yahoo

Post by mathattack » Fri, Aug 02, 2013, 1:13 AM UTC

general_failure wrote: post #35

mathattack wrote: post #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, Face…

Talent follows money. If yahoo pays more than Google, talent will come.