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Re:Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay by thaumasiotes on Saturday April 30, 2016 @01:35AM (#11600527)
> Pretty sure that anyone could sit on a pile of Alibaba stock and just do nothing, and come out ahead of where Yahoo is today.

I'm willing to stipulate this. It's worth pointing out that it's usually very difficult for people in highly politicized roles to just sit and do nothing, even when that's obviously the right thing to do and they would personally like nothing more.

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Re:Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay by baddox on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:15AM (#11600618)
Also, it wouldn't have been at all obvious at the time that doing nothing had a mentionable chance of ending better than sincere efforts to guide the company.
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Re:Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay by thaumasiotes on Saturday April 30, 2016 @09:38AM (#11601633)
Ehhh... when over 100% of your company's value is in cashlike financial instruments that it owns, it should be obvious that there's a chance doing nothing will pay better than trying to do something. The size of that chance may not be obvious, but the presence should be.
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