Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay

Re:Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay by WalterBright on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:03AM (#11600595)

If one has great success once, it's possibly luck. When it's 3 times, there's something else going on. Jobs did it 3 times (Apple, Pixar, Apple again). Gates also did it 3 times (microcomputer BASIC, DOS, and 32 bit Windows).

Is Amazon's success due to Bezos or luck? I prefer to bet on Bezos rather than luck.

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Re:Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay by robotresearcher on Saturday April 30, 2016 @03:23AM (#11600772)

There are so many companies out there that the chances of a few of them being lucky 3 or more times in a row are very high.

People are bad at statistical reasoning.

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Re:Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay by rdl on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:52AM (#11600702)

Amazon has been successful far more than 3 times, all under Bezos, so it's pretty clearly not luck.

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Re:Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay by homero on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:01AM (#11600857)

Aws was an absurd success, no one saw it coming except bezos

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Re:Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay by agsamek on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:35AM (#11600672)

I don't understand why this had been downvoted. I support this.

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