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Re:Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer ... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:40PM (#14546131)
I don't know. If you replace Marissa Mayer with a generic CEO, and Yahoo did just as badly under that CEO, there might be just as much anger and/or contempt. See Steve Ballmer for an example - and Microsoft didn't do badly under him, just less great than it did under Bill Gates.

(Yes, I know that lots of the vitriol aimed at Ballmer was for various weird public antics. But he was also regarded as a dud of a CEO, and roundly criticized for not actually knowing how to run Microsoft.)

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Re:Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer ... by 1024core on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:18PM (#14546515)
> If you replace Marissa Mayer with a generic CEO, and Yahoo did just as badly under that CEO, there might be just as much anger and/or contempt.

But Yahoo was doing a much worse job before she got there! How many articles have you seen on HN about Scott Thompson? About Carol Bartz? About Terry Semel?

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