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A comment on Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google. Parent comment

Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by treis on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:20AM (#19624341)
>Tumblr wasn't a bad acquisition.

I would like to see your justification for this. Because Yahoo paid 1.1 billion dollars for it and they wrote down pretty much all of the value within a few years. It looks especially bad when compared with Facebook buying Instagram around the same time for about the same price.

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Re:Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarante... by macspoofing on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:30PM (#19657436)
You seem like you're more aware of the outcomes of the purchase so I will acquiesce to you, but $1 billion for Tumblr doesn't strike me as particularly egregious. Maybe that's because culturally Tumblr punches above its weight? I don't know.
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