Comments on: You Can’t Handle the Truth — Musings About YAHOO, MySpace, AOL

By: JLM

JLM — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:49:00 +0000

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As a breeder — A++

As a CEO — D –

BRC
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By: sigmaalgebra

sigmaalgebra — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:33:00 +0000

But she's so cute All fixed up and in a good red or blue dress, she's a dish. In that Vogue shot, clearly she has a great figure for what she is best at -- motherhood. When she joined Yahoo, fixed up, she could still look like she was in the eighth grade. So darned cute. But, but, but Google is now the world's most valuable public company, and MM was right there at the founding and, some people guessed, was one of the main contributors. So, when the BoD wanted something good for Yahoo, they picked MM! The BoD couldn't be blamed for that, right? What I heard about MM's role at Google, she insisted that the font colors on the Web pages be picked carefully. Okay. Since I have zero color sense, I used a color picker program and borrowed the colors for the Web pages for my startup. Gee, she picked some colors carefully; with that background, how could she not do really well at Yahoo? BoD, are we learning yet? Actually, I doubt that very much of Yahoo will get sold off. Instead, Yahoo will mostly just continue with their news pages, Yahoo finance (which has been very popular), and a few more. If there is a good acquisition that fits well and is not wildly over priced, then she might buy it. BTW, someday I may give her a call. I suspect that if she just cuts and trims she can have a nicely profitable company. For a write off of goodwill, what are the tax implications? Does the write off get treated like a current loss on the income statement and, thus, reduce current earnings and current taxes?

By: JLM

JLM — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:20:00 +0000

In reply to MC210.

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Of course.

FB (Zucker) made such an acquisition with Instagram and it has turned to gold. [It was, arguably, also a defensive masterstroke on the cusp of his taking FB public but that’s a different spin.]

Like anything else, Only Results Count.

One could argue that the Z-man was an experienced visionary and entrepreneur, no? While MM was a high level brainiac Googler.

BRC
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By: MC210

MC210 — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:49:00 +0000

As someone on the outside looking in to the tech industry in general, are some of these things (I’m mainly looking at the Tumblr acquisition) that could have been spun as “bold” and “forward thinking” if the Yahoo ship had been righted? I’m not a user of Tumblr so I’m not sure what the reasoning was or what the plan was to increase revenues, but I have all the other low/no positive cash flow companies who get acquired on my brain while thinking of this.

By: JLM

JLM — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:11:00 +0000

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Yahoo put itself into play after a disastrous earnings call in which Marissa Mayer announced its Open Your Kimono strategy, the layoff of 15% of the company’s work force, and that she would NOT be doing another Vogue glamour shoot any time soon.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/you-cant-handle-the-truth-musings-about-yahoo-myspace-aol/

I may have gotten some of that wrong.

BRC
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