Re:Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
by petercooper on Monday July 16, 2012 @04:46PM
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Bit borderline on being a 'tech' company by modern standards (though historically it's about as tech as it gets), General Electric under Jack Welch. He pulled off a Jobsian effort in the 80s. GE went from $27bn revenues to $130bn under his watch and a market cap of $14bn up to $410bn.
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Re:Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
by boyter on Monday July 16, 2012 @07:33PM
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As I recall most of that was due to the US economy turning around and picking up defense contracts. I think it would be impossible to not make money in that situation.
Re:Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
by jpadkins on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @07:48AM
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I think there is a big difference between "impossible to not make money in that situation" and growing revenues by 100B under your leadership. A lot of companies in that era did not grow revenues by 100 billion dollars.