Discussion for article #240277
On the bright side, she has a future role as a failed Republican Senate candidate, to be followed with a run for a (vice) presidential slot!
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Yahoo has been a mess for a very long time. Their model died nearly 10 years ago, and they have been drifting ever since, vacillating between presenting themselves as “adapting” and “being a prime take over target”.
While I am not sure her second pregnancy has that much to do with it, she is going to be another example of a woman finally let into the board room only to find the company disintegrating around her, so she can take the blame.
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What, spending more than a billion dollars for a site with people’s collections of porn gifs wasn’t genius business acumen?
I dunno, man. I can’t profess to have detailed knowledge about it, but his comments are referring to specific decisions she has made as being bad decisions, not just vague references to “oh look, the ship is sinking, blame whoever happens to be the captain.”
That said, he’s certainly struck a nerve by being so offensive, but I have to admit to there being some vague merit to what he says: can you imagine the total pubic relations shit show if the Board axed her while pregnant with twins? In this political climate while such issues are getting uber-attention and have been rubbed raw to the bone? It would certainly be a factor the Board would consider.
Anyhoo, we don’t have any idea why they keep her or whether they even consider her decisions to be poorly made, as he does, so he’s clearly totally off base and just yammering crass nonsense.
She has made some bad decisions, but when you take over the helm of the Titanic after its already hit the iceberg, it really hard to point out that if she had done this or that, the ship would have stayed afloat for another 5 minutes.
And you are correct. Firing her now would not go over well in Silicon Valley, which is already prickly about gender discrimination. (part of the reason she was brought on board as CEO in the first place). Of course, this is her second pregnancy while being in that position. So waiting for a window of her not being with child is problematic too.
And yeah, he is yammering crass nonsense. Yahoo is full of actual business issues for a business professor to be discussing, this one is pretty trivial in the scheme of things.
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does this mean he thinks she’s worse than Carly Fiorina sinking HP? and the process that continues under Meg Whitman?
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See carly fiornia’s career!
Bingo. Yahoo doesn’t really have much of a reason to exist, other than to serve its existing users. New users have no reason to choose Yahoo, the only reason to use them is that you picked them to host your email back in the '90’s. They can’t change that basic reality by hiring a different CEO.
I’m a man. But men should just shut up about pregnancy. Like, even if you think that women are getting some crazy advantage (like not getting fired), just shut up about it. Because you’re almost certainly wrong and exposing your own ignorance and biases.
It’s a tough thing for me to argue one way or another. I see her as a vastly overpaid member of a parasitic class. But I don’t think of her as being much different from the other members of that parasitic class. So it seems crazy to me to say, “All the other CEOs deserve to be where they are, but she’s getting a free ride because she’s pregnant!”
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Seriously. One might think he’d spend more of his intellectual capital on discussing why he holds the opinion that her decisions were bad, not the fact that she’s pregos.
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“she’s going to go down as the most overpaid CEO in history.”
No. That title goes to the all time winner: Larry Ellison.
Runner-Up: Carly Fiorina (HP)
Dis-Honorable Mention: Steve Balmer (Microsoft) along with Steven Elop (Nokia)