1) develop a reputation for being a good negotiator, because that will help in future negotiations
2) actually build the company rather than raid it, because that will lead to better jobs down the road / better reputation.
I mean, she's not a finance type. Those guys do just raid and rob. Someone who wants to raid companies doesn't join a 10 person startup out of college, toiling away to acquire users.
haha. dude. she's in her 40s and worth $500M (and growing) now. she is obviously pilfering yahoo and enriching herself and her friends. things change. people change. sometimes for the worse.
ironically, the corporate raider types are the ones who are currently trying to stop her, because she is killing the golden goose that has lined their pockets for decades.
to be quite honest i wouldn't be surprised if her loyalties still lay with the google cabal. you know what one great way to get rid of a major competitor is? become ceo and sack the joint. genius!
I believe that is now known as "Elop-ing."
It is not like she'll need to quickly look for a job and will be ruined if nobody hires her afterwards. She could retire any second and do nothing for the rest of her life, which she might as well do.
Quite opposite, in fact. The only way for her to get to the billionaire club would be if Yahoo was a wildly successfully turnaround. She clearly wanted to be Big Boss pretty bad, though.
uh, does it matter? that's how it ended up.
but giving someone a $58m bonus (severence... lol) for a year of work is not a consequence of 'sharp' vs. 'not sharp', it's a consequence of simply not giving a shit about the money because half (or more) of your motivation is probably pilfering the company coffers for you and your cronies to begin with.
none of the yahoo story seems like incompetence to me. it seems like a straight up robbery. everyone calling her incompetent, or dumb, or whatever, has got 'naive' stamped across their forehead.