Hacker News on Yahoo’s demise: LEAVE MARISSA ALONE! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13360673 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
I'm with them. She signed up as captain of the Titanic an hour after it hit the iceberg. No shame in it sinking anyway.
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Replying to @seldo
that’s a really wrong take, in my opinion. Yahoo was not doomed, it just couldn’t be a top-tier tech company. She swung and missed
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Replying to @Pinboard
On paper I agree, but from my time there my impression of how deep the rot was in that culture made me believe it was impossible.
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Replying to @seldo
my impression there was that management had just accrued over the years, with no one ever fired. (My impressions formed in 2006)
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Replying to @Pinboard
I was there 2007-2010 and it was basically just a retirement home by that point. Both unable and unwilling to execute on anything.
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Pockets of brilliance existed -- some of the best engineers I know worked there -- but they were too diluted by the rest.
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when I worked there, Yahoo was kind of unique as the one big tech company that was parent-friendly. So there were amazing engineers
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