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afwriter
afwriter
6/15/2017 12:15:21 AM
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Re: Yahoo CEO Exits
@Mike I will take all of the blame for Yahoo's woes if it means I get that kind of money. 

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afwriter
afwriter
6/15/2017 12:17:35 AM
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Re: Yahoo CEO Exits
Yahoo was THE search engine in my high school years until a little company called Google came along and turned their name into a verb. 

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elizabethv
elizabethv
6/15/2017 8:31:00 AM
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Re: Yahoo CEO Exits
@Michelle - I'd be good with a short term, well-paying CEO gig. Who's hiring?

Mayer had qualifications that got her the job, I'm sure. They didn't just hire her because she already had money and didn't need more. 

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elizabethv
elizabethv
6/15/2017 8:37:34 AM
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Re: Yahoo CEO Exits
@srufolo1 - In my "anti-coporations" belief system, I generally see most people with that kind of money as heartless. Perhaps it takes that kind of "heartlessness" to get there. As for people who think keeping homeless out of tents will solve the problem of homelessness - they lack the understanding for why people lose their homes to begin with. His view makes perfect sense when you look at who he is and where he comes from.

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srufolo1
srufolo1
6/15/2017 9:15:51 AM
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Re: Yahoo CEO Exits
@Michelle I'm always looking for the "like" button on these comments. lol  Joking aside, I am also ready for that short-term gig. As the old saying goes: "The rich get richer." I've never seen a statement more true.

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srufolo1
srufolo1
6/15/2017 9:19:39 AM
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Re: Yahoo CEO Exits
@elizabethv  The greed gets to them. There are a few people with lots of money that are not heartless, such as some actors and musicians, including Bono and I'd like to squeeze Brad Pitt in here. Guess they are not corporations. However, you do hear of the occasional story where a CEO of a corporation pays for people's weddings or makes sure they don't get paid any more than what their workers do. How long these corporations last though is another question.

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DHagar
DHagar
6/15/2017 5:31:45 PM
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Re: Yahoo CEO Exits
@afwriter, count me in as well!  Pride/humility can be monetized!

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DHagar
DHagar
6/15/2017 5:35:23 PM
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Re: Yahoo CEO Exits
@srufolo1, very true.  They "haves" are in a different atmosphere!  Once you are in the CEO "contract" category, you are truly in a win-win proposition.

I recently saw an add for a casmiere overnight luggage bag for $500 - while I was considering how to keep it from being "scratched", I turned the page and it is for people who fly on "private jets" - obviously a world I know nothing about!

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
6/15/2017 7:17:39 PM
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Yahoo didn't have a Steve Jobs...
I'm not sure how Yahoo could have been saved in hindsight... Apple had Steve Jobs to turn it around, and employees at Apple respected him because he founded the company from a garage.

Mayer didn't have that kind of cred at all. And she made a few major blunders. On top of that, Yahoo has been a haphazard collection of semi-failed startups for years. I don't think her strategy of buying Tumblr was wrong, but.. it just turned out that Tumblr was not Instagram/Snap. If Yahoo had actually gotten into a real "Mobile First" strategy, it could have turned out differently. But Yahoo didn't have the right engineers/employees. 

Apple still had some rockstar employees when Jobs returned. I'm sure Yahoo had some, but maybe not in the right fields. Eg. Apple had rockstar designers and hardware engineers, which turned out to be great to build the iMac/iPod/iPhone/etc. But Yahoo had.. great site reliability engineers? And it didn't really have a clear direction for building out the next social media platform with them....? Maybe it lacked the algorithm engineers who could keep Tumblr really engaging and useful? 

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srufolo1
srufolo1
6/16/2017 9:01:22 AM
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Re: Yahoo CEO Exits
@afwriter  I'm sure Mayer is laughing all the way to the bank. I would love to be paid that much for poor performance. I barely got paid when I worked my a-s off at a corporation.

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