Marissa Mayer Yahoo CEO

Agreed. If Mayer was awesome, she would have been CEO of Google, infact she was best positioned to be one at some point. All the people she hired were getting promoted over her. She was pissed, obviously could never show it. Bided time and took up the CEO position at Yahoo. Anyone with big ego would. I wouldn't blame her. She did what is best for her. Just like any other economic actor. What I really felt bad for - Yahoo's employees and customers. Only qualified person who was willing

Are you serious you don't know about her Google demotion? Here read this and get enlightened: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/17/marissa-mayer-yahoo/Also you didn't know about Henrique de Castro catastrophe? Here read this: <a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici&#x

I am of the opinion that Ms. Mayer was hired partly as a way for Yahoo's investors to hedge their bets [1]. Its a bit of a dark view on silicon valley culture, perhaps, but I think a valid one.Anyways, I agree with your point that Yahoo had already suffered most of its damage. In many ways, its latest CEO did the best that could be expected of anyone in that position.[1]:https://en.wikiped

Sounds like Yahoo pre Marissa Mayer era. :)

Because she made big PR how she will make yahoo new again and then did super tiny things thay changed the logo, made random acquisitions and removed remote workers, which will absolutely change a failing company.I was expecting a new revolutionary product, a complete refocus of the company, such as Apple. She sure must have had this in her plan or she probably actually didn't.Sounds to me like someone didn't know what they were doing instead of someone who really has a plan.

I am not sure that a 'generic' CEO would have had a different result.Broadly there are commentators who seem nostalgic for the 'old' Yahoo (and by that I mean the turn of the century Yahoo) and they often express angst in 'over paying' the CEO more along the lines of "we could have used that money to may Yahoo! great again" rather than pay it to some CEO.Then there are people who have some idea of the level of change Yahoo! has gone through and the n

Unless you consider 'they' the hedge funds who are now in control of the Yahoo board, your perception of who is inept is misplaced. This decision was a critical part of the regime change that took place. While Mayer is currently the CEO and may have the best of intentions, she doesn't have anything resembling the control that Zuckerberg, Larry Page or even Tim Cook have over their company. If she did, it is a near certainty that this money would have been retained and invested in the company.

That is nonsense.Yahoo is one of the oldest and most important web companies around. It's always going to be newsworthy. And people are a bit critical of Mayer because she promised a lot and really hasn't delivered anything.

When she joined yahoo in 2012, Microsoft was willing to pay $51 Billion for Yahoo thats how the valuation was, But after running it for 4 years the valuation reached a low of $5 Billion. She said she will turn it around. In 2016 she said she will turn yahoo around in 3 yrs. And very soon yahoo was sold, she misguided a lot of stockholders with that statement. Also the blame of a sinking ship goes to the captain as does the credit to the loot of a pirate ship. If she didnt run yahoo into the gro

They could buy Yahoo! and put Marissa in charge...