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Comment by nostrademons | Hacker News Reader

Wow. They really are Yahoo. Founders take a back-seat in the midst of hyper-growth. Outside management team sourced from other industries (CFO of the NFL, for a tech company?). Product pivot into believing they're a media company. Eclipsed by newer technologies. Founder CEO returns amidst flat stock performance and boardroom turmoil. Exploring a sale to other big companies, who can't afford it because the market cap is too inflated. Talk of needing a turnaround CEO.

Maybe they should hire Marissa Mayer. I hear she'll be looking for a job in the near future, and she's got plenty of relevant experience.

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Yes, MM can redesign Twitter bird in an all night Hackathon and that can put twitter again in hyper growth mode.

More purple.

Marissa Mayer is one of those women who believes their shit is rock solid, when in fact it's very runny which can be compared to the runniness of Yahoos market cap since she became CEO. She is also an elitist who believes you need to have a college degree in order to get things done that she needs done. Now, Yahoo is virtually worthless. Good job Marissa.

I actually don't get much of the Marissa-hate around here. I've worked with her - she was the executive sponsor of a couple projects I worked on when I first got to Google. She has her flaws, but in general she's both smart and very hardworking. CEO of Yahoo is a tough job for anyone - as evidenced by the 5 (!) CEOs in the 5 years before her - but the real mistakes made in Yahoo's history were made in the late 90s and early 2000s.

It's pretty likely Twitter will follow the same path, but the real mistakes made in Twitter's lifetime were made between 2010-2016.

Yahoo is even now more profitable and successful than Twitter ever was. I guess Yahoo is only perceived as such a failure because they could have been Google, but the numbers themselves do not look bad. They are making money for almost 2 decades now.

It is much easier to write comments like these than to do 1/10th of what these people have accomplished.

Very true, but that applies to basically everything written on this site.

I'm actually semi-serious with my comment (Mayer would probably make the perfect CEO for Twitter), but nobody in a decision-making position will ever see it.

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