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Re:Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer ... by mi100hael on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:31PM (#14546040)
> Share price isn't correlated with CEO actions.

> Janitors at Yahoo also presided over a 33B growth in capitalization.

So then who's responsible for making the changes at a company that result in investors paying more for a piece of the company? Investors are willing to pay more for companies with cleaner toilets?

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Re:Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer ... by arcticbull on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:17PM (#14548728)
Ask the folks over at Alibaba, they'd be the ones. The main CEO contribution was holding onto an appreciating asset. Success through inaction -- my life dream.
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