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Marissa Mayer leaving Yahoo

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35 pointsthe_arun14 comments

drove Yahoo further into the ditch, got paid millions for it. glad to see her go, most overrated tech executive ever.

Yahoo was in "the ditch" long before Mayer. They had the opportunity to buy Google for $1M, they passed on it...

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Which is something that happens. People miss opportunities to invest all the time. Mayer destroyed Yahoo and raised the stock price high enough that investors were happy. Totally different. All you have to do is look at the stock price from when she took over to when Yahoo got sold. I was a huge fan of her when she first started. I do not respect her now.

Yang also bought into Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan, both of which made Mayer's job of returning shareholder value an autopilot gig that any one of us could have "succeeded" in while collecting $900MM a week in comp. She's just another Emperor without clothes.

Sorry, I meant $900K per week. Still...

The Yahoo share price has increased substantially since she has been there (almost 3x from a quick glance) – nobody can reinvent Yahoo at this stage, if she was hired to satisfy investors then the majority of them are surely pleased.

And they have Jerry Yang to thank for his foresight in investing in China and Japan.

It's not her fault she was over-hyped.

The media really, really wants a female Silicon Valley CEO success story, and they're going to project it onto whoever they can find.

Yahoo isn't something able to be rescued. They don't have a mission. They have a big investment in a highly successful Chinese e-commerce company and a hodgepodge of web apps that people still like (Yahoo Finance).

I'm a long time user of Yahoo Mail. The problems started to appear just when they tried to keep up with the new technology (I read that they use React). Up to that point everything was good.

Now, when I load the web mail client, sometimes it let's me select emails but the action buttons remain grayed out. This is a problem with the app state and also a problem with overthinking things: why would you disable those buttons at all? I know, active/disabled buttons show you what you can do or not from the current state of the app but it's not like the app is so complicated that you can not figured it out yourself.

There's nothing wrong with yahoo mail that forwarding it all to another e-mail service won't fix. Seriously. I gave up on their crappy interface a long time ago. Just forward it elsewhere if you can't afford to just get rid of it.

I don't want to change it, I like it. Plus they added the possibility to add other email accounts and so on. It just that they had a good product and now with the rewrite the product is not as good which you would expect to get from a rewrite.

I hope she chooses a problem with far deeper impact like university education or healthcare.

Next stop Uber I guess.

Interesting idea. Yahoo was basically ride-sharing Ali Baba so it's a fit.

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