Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Regrets Buying Tumblr Instead Of Netflix Or Hulu As It "Would Have Been A Better Acquisition"

Did she decide to buy during or after porn prohibition. Might have been okay during porn.

Tumblr will outlive them all

She bought it and then banned porn.

When all it was good for was porn.

She redesigned the logo herself after getting drunk at a party. Obviously she made most of her business decisions this way.

"Former Yahoo Board Members Regret Hiring Marissa Mayer Instead of Anyone Else at All. Frankly, Any Idiot Picked from a Police Lineup Could Have Saved Us Billions, Not To Mention the Costs in Shame."

Did she ever make a good decision? Tumblr wasn't necessarily so bad, but the control freak wanted to make it safe for knitters. She redesigned the appearance of the Yahoo! logo and Yahoo! Mail with great fanfare and minimal difference. She was the first tech CEO to insist on employee asses in corporate office Aerons and to draw ire and resignations from remote workers. She seemed to have a Sherman's March approach to making her staff hate her - forever.

Hired to rescue a company whose value had dropped from $125B to $40B, her roundly stupid decisions resulted in the sale of the company for $4B.

What a fucking disaster. A company with once powerful reserves of money that could have landed enormously powerful and lucrative acquisitions squandered everything. Yahoo! with it's exclamation mark became a laughing stick. Like AOL and 'Youve Got Mail!' Yahoo! News is fucking pitiful. Did she ever do anything right? Ever make a sound decision that paid off?

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[quote]What a fucking disaster. A company with once powerful reserves of money that could have landed enormously powerful and lucrative acquisitions squandered everything.

Complete, unqualified disaster.

She was a wonk at Google who has been demoted out of the A-Team because she didn't get the big picture. And Yahoo didn't dig deep enough to discover that before they hired her. She just aped Zuckerberg, Jobs, and Tim Cook—free food in the cafeteria!—with no strategic vision or ability to execute.

This would be known as a failure. We experience more failures than success in our lives. But the elites are rewarded for their failures with large bonuses and further opportunities.

Their failure is not a constraint in their professional lives.

The CEO of Herman Miller has a track record of failure leading legacy brands, she continues to fail and secure opportunities.

What does failure look like? Declining sales, closure of factories and lost jobs. Also, no bonuses for anyone outside of the c-suite.

Does she think Netflix would've thrived under her/yahoo's thumb?

She/Yahoo ruined tumblr ferfucksake. What makes her think Netflix, which is way more complicated business than tumblr, would've done well answering to her?

I know she's a woman but she has a punchable face. SO smug!

This reads like an Onion headline.

Since Tumblr is no longer owned by Yahoo, why don't they allow back pornography?

[quote] She bought it and then banned porn. When all it was good for was porn.

There probably was no winning strategy for Tumblr (which proves how stupid it was for Yahoo to purchase it). Once the porn was banned, Tumblr lost its appeal. On the other hand, all the porn made it difficult to monetize the site because advertisers don't want to associate themselves with porn. And the porn didn't fit with Yahoo's image. There was no way for Yahoo to make Tumblr work to its advantage.

[quote] She was the first tech CEO to insist on employee asses in corporate office Aerons and to draw ire and resignations from remote workers.

At the time, she had no way of knowing that COVID-19 would strike several years later. But now, in hindsight, her decision to ban remote work sure seems out of step with reality.

R13 "advertisers don't want to associate themselves with porn" How come Twitter has no problem with porn being allowed?

Tumblr was a woman's site and she made it more so.

R3 nails it. Mayer/Yahoo killed Tumblr. Imagine what she would have done to Netflix or Hulu.

She should step down or be fired.

[quote] "advertisers don't want to associate themselves with porn" How come Twitter has no problem with porn being allowed?

I wouldn't point to Twitter as an economic success story. Twitter has never been profitable, even before Elon Musk took over.

I'm sure Disney would be happy to offload Hulu if someone wants it now.

She resigned more than six years ago

Musk is lying. Smarter experts than I have determined what he’s saying is impossible, based on how much revenue they’ve lost.

[quote]I wouldn't point to Twitter as an economic success story. Twitter has never been profitable, even before Elon Musk took over.

That was a problem with most tech companies, including Amazon, when companies were valued by their revenue and users even though they made no profit.

Designed to fail, a successful failure

[quote]She resigned more than six years ago

Good. Now she should STFU.

Marissa Mayer is an idiot, but I don't think anyone could have turned Yahoo around. It's one of those brands, like AOL or Netscape, that will always be associated with the early days of the Internet. Any company or platform it acquires will automatically become "uncool."

How can an idiot secure high profile professional positions at those prices? Her tenure at yahoo is not memorable excluding the enormous salary was offered.

[quote]Marissa Mayer is an idiot, but I don't think anyone could have turned Yahoo around. It's one of those brands, like AOL or Netscape, that will always be associated with the early days of the Internet. Any company or platform it acquires will automatically become "uncool."

That's what rebranding is for. By now, it shouldn't be "Yahoo".

No one remembers the early days of the internet excluding the olds.

This twat again

I think there's great truth in that, R24, however great her idiocy in making terrible decisions upon terrible decisions and then doubling down on them.

Yahoo! had a stupid name that had become an embarrassing name. Embarrassing as in bragging about an @aol.com address or having just one friend on Myspace whose name was Tom, from Santa Monica. There's a tipping point past which a company has little chance of recovery unless it radically reshapes and renames itself.

[quote]No one remembers the early days of the internet excluding the olds.

I remember wondering how I could get an .edu email account so I could join Facebook.

[quote] By now, it shouldn't be "Yahoo".

If Yahoo had purchased Hulu, they could have renamed the company Yahoolu.

[quote]Embarrassing as in bragging about an @aol.com address

I swear, the email account I use for my DL account is an @aol email account. I created it in the 1990s. I don't currently use the account for any other purpose.

Over ten years ago, Facebook was deemed uncool by young people, a mom and dad thing Youth isn't cool but it is valued in western society. The kids still use Instagram and find value in the platform

New York’s subway is back to sending alerts on Twitter after briefly dumping the service because Elon Musk wanted it to pay $50,000 monthly

I will hate this bitch forever for killing porn on tumblr

Never liked her.

Tech companies are the long con

A Silicon Valley lender collapsed after a run on the bank.

Why is anyone still listening to this dummy?

The same reason people listen to musky odors