Re:Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Make $186M from Verizon Deal
by opo on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:58PM
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>...Let's be fair: Mayer didn't have a real chance at fixing this company
As a user, I found almost all of the changes made to sites like I once used (like the main page or flickr, or the finance page) to be worse than before she was there.
She did some very bad hires such as Henrique de Castro who in 15 months got over 100 million in salary, stock and severance.
She wasted billions on acquisitions that did not add value.
The comments from Yahoo employees since she was hired were never very good, and her behavior with employees was said to sometimes be somewhat bizarre (such as reading a children's book at a comm meeting)
I agree that she likely never had a real chance at fixing the company, but I don't think that proves that no one couldn't have improved the company.
As a user, I found almost all of the changes made to sites like I once used (like the main page or flickr, or the finance page) to be worse than before she was there.
She did some very bad hires such as Henrique de Castro who in 15 months got over 100 million in salary, stock and severance.
She wasted billions on acquisitions that did not add value.
The comments from Yahoo employees since she was hired were never very good, and her behavior with employees was said to sometimes be somewhat bizarre (such as reading a children's book at a comm meeting)
I agree that she likely never had a real chance at fixing the company, but I don't think that proves that no one couldn't have improved the company.