Re:Starboard to Start Proxy Fight to Remove Yahoo’s Board
by gcb0 on Thursday March 24, 2016 @12:10PM
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the other teams probably made a point that by showing your emails on the front page the user would not have to click the ymail link and thus print two extra ads. hence losing money.
what they get instead is less users overtime and lose progressively more. but hey, someone did his job of driving ads up that quarter.
Wait, so Yahoo leadership was optimizing against user engagement? Sure, they may not be monetized as well as other parts of the network, but that seems like a ridiculously shortsighted decision. At this point, Yahoo's only growth case is if it starts to gain mindshare, not just reapportioning the eyeballs they already have...