Yes, of course it has some teardown value. Billions in Ali Baba stock if nothing else.

But that's not what you're suggesting - doubling down by doing more of what they've been doing. This assumes that what they're doing has some useful foundation you can find and build on.

There are essentially zero Yahoo users, especially of any service that's remotely monetizable. People who use Yahoo are people whose ISP set it as their default homepage ten years ago.

You can hear the fail in their words. They're talking about retaining users, not offering value. They still want to be a portal (ie the base of every action you take), something users didn't want when it was new.

That's the business legacy you'd have to reverse before you stop producing negative-value, let alone actually produce something that may actually be valuable.