Re:Yahoo's Marissa Mayer could get $55M in severance pay
by baddox on Saturday April 30, 2016 @02:15AM
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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
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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.