Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google

Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by johntiger1 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:16PM (#19619979)

OK, then why didn't Yahoo just hire me to run the company? Same outcome but my salary would have been MUCH lower :)

In all seriousness, just because Yahoo was in a downspin doesn't mean that leadership can't save the company. Look at John Chen and Blackberry

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Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by pilsetnieks on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:45PM (#19620187)

Or they needed someone with experience to do a controlled descent with minimum casualties instead of a fiery crash.

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Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by kelnos on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:25PM (#19620463)

How was Marissa Mayer that person, though?

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Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by pilsetnieks on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @09:36PM (#19620925)

I'm guessing better than GP anyway. Or call it a smokescreen if you will, distracting people by making loud decisions while the board got ready for winding down everything. I mean I'm guessing - we'll never know for sure unless someone from Yahoo's leadership comes forward and lays it all out.

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Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by Phlarp on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @09:43PM (#19620965)

Likely an understanding that she would unwind the company gracefully without touching the shiney glass case full of $BABA and a trust that should would execute that understanding faithfully.

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