Consider: 11 yrs ago, Microsoft offered $45b for Yahoo. Then-CEO Jerry Yang poisoned the deal, saying that MS "vastly underestimated" the value. 9 yrs later, Yahoo sold to Verizon for < $4.5b. Now it's being parted-out for pennies on the dollar. https://www.axios.com/verizon-tumblr-wordpress-automattic-e6645edd-bc73-45c2-9380-9fe8ca34291f.html …
Yep, I was an early Y! person, first non-Stanford hire into the management team. If you want the very moment where Yahoo entered into the very long & crushing tailspin for those of us the bleed purple it was the http://Broadcast.com deal. All that money & NOTHING there at all.
