Atraveller
Banned
Community is worth it.This is all Dan Harmon's fault.
Community is worth it.This is all Dan Harmon's fault.
Who's expected to buy yahoo?
Why? You could probably hire a random middle-manager and they wouldn't do a worse job.With a company as large as Yahoo they have to pay absurd amounts.
Man I would love to be a fired CEO.
Why? You could probably hire a random middle-manager and they wouldn't do a worse job.
Well I'm sure when they hired her they didn't think that she would be middle management material.
But basically you can't pay the person who controls everything and knows everything small amounts that would entice them to defect, start their own business, or join a competitor. Or just screw you over out of spite. In that sense business managers are kind of like artist management. You want them to really be hungry for success, so theyre given large cuts of the business, and to be proud of and eant to maintain their position, so that they represent you well.
Flickr is the best part of Yahoo.
That no one uses anymore.
Instagram won.
I actually still use my yahoo mail account and reading this makes me wonder if I should probably change email address soon.
I was just reading about her the other day. She put in 130 hour work weeks at Google, and would sleep under her desk, so at least her work ethic wasn't part of the issue. I really do think she tried her best, it just seems like she/Yahoo was doomed to fail. 55 mil does seem like a ridiculous severance package though.
Studies show that past 50 per week, it is counterproductive anyway."Working" 130 hours a week just means that you sleep at your desk and eat all of your meals on campus. You're not getting anything worthwhile done at hour 20 of a 24 hour shift.
The choices of who he could be based on are sadly too numerous to count.So, Big Head from Silicon Valley is based on Marissa?
Studies show that past 50 per week, it is counterproductive anyway.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/26/working-more-than-50-hours-makes-you-less-productive.html
So that's the source of the stupid smug grin of hers.
She must work millions of times harder than the average minimum wage employee. Remarkable.
That picture is backwards right? I mean, the second one is from 1998, right?My favourite part of her tenure when was she got a bunch of designers together over the weekend to do a re-brand and produced their new logo...
Her 130 hour figure was when she was an employee at Google.That's for employees that actually produce something though. For a CEO whose actions have only ever lost the company money, who's to say working crazy hours isn't beneficial in some way? Perhaps they're at their most dangerous when they come bounding in on Monday morning, well-rested and full of beans.
I don't see it having the need to become a Snapchat or an Instagram.It could be the best part of Yahoo. They have had so many opportunities to pivot it to be a leader in social media but fumbled every attempt while Snapchat and Instagram explode.
A severance package is essentially a signing bonus. They are often negotiated prior to a CEO signing a contract. So they are another tool to entice a CEO to take the job.
My favourite part of her tenure when was she got a bunch of designers together over the weekend to do a re-brand and produced their new logo...
Yup, the first one had so much more personality. And they treated the entire thing as some industry shattering event.
Plus, these folks basically eat sleep and dream work, so at risk of their health or family, they want to make sure they are taken care of in the event they give it their all and don't succeed. You can blame Mayer for not having a solid strategy, but you can't say she didn't work hard. And now, after sacrificing years of her personal life, she gets paid for it.
And as someone who love looking at EXIF data and seeing what cameras people use, that is a huge minority and pretty much zero market.Flickr is more about decent quality photography.
This, truly this. If people are really interested they should read a bit more about her tenure at Yahoo. I can't think of a worse CEO in the last few years, and yet she's lucky enough that her incompetence might be shrouded enough under the false perception that Yahoo was doomed regardless that she might luck her way into another horrendously undeserved role.Nah, thats bullshit. While it would have been incredibly difficult to turn Yahoo around, it was possible at one point. Cut costs hard, fire middle management bureaucrats, pivot the business AWAY from ads/search/directory and into email, photos, mobile, tumblr, etc.
Instead Meyers was just a terrible, terrible, terrible CEO
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhar...d-yahoo-ceo-mistakes-are-costly/#447354d56281
http://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2015/11/19/the-last-days-of-marissa-mayer/#35b503ef6bff
Cutting work at home policy. Pivoting to TV (Community, hiring Katie Couric), encouraging turf wars internally, poor hiring (and firing) of some top execs, its just an endless list of poor decisions - like throwing a $7m dollar Christmas party in 2015 that literally was themed Great Gatsby, as they were in the middle of firing thousands.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/yahoo-had-a-party
Its easy to run a company that is doing well, you just listen to the smart people under you and keep the boat steady. But to turn around a company requires someone ruthless and deep understanding of financials, it was such a dumb, dumb decision to hire someone who only knew success.
This, truly this. If people are really interested they should read a bit more about her tenure at Yahoo. I can't think of a worse CEO in the last few years, and yet she's lucky enough that her incompetence might be shrouded enough under the false perception that Yahoo was doomed regardless that she might luck her way into another horrendously undeserved role.
None of this matters as had she done a better job she would be entitled to a larger severance package based on her ability to hit certain milestones.
Did you expect her to turn Yahoo around?
My favorite is when she removed all work from home benefits and laid off anyone that wasn't near an office, but had a nursery built beside her office so she could bring her kid to work.
$55m is pretty damn big no matter which way you look at it. Just because she could have got $100m instead doesn't change anything about how absurd it is.
Ya. She did a great job at Google.
$55m is pretty damn big no matter which way you look at it. Just because she could have got $100m instead doesn't change anything about how absurd it is.