@[email protected]MB to Hacker [email protected]English • 11 months agoMarissa Mayer admits Yahoo should have bought Netflix instead of Tumblrwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down13file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•11 months agoYahoo was idiotic and passed on buying both Google and Facebook also. Zero business sense. Great internal infrastructure however. Didn’t realize how great it was until I went elsewhere.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoMeanwhile, they also got ripped off on dumb shit like broadcast.com.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoOne billion dollars for what exactly? So dumb.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoYou tell me. I have never understood that transaction. The tech was mostly vapor, and IIRC there weren’t really any paying customers.
Yahoo was idiotic and passed on buying both Google and Facebook also. Zero business sense.
Great internal infrastructure however. Didn’t realize how great it was until I went elsewhere.
Meanwhile, they also got ripped off on dumb shit like broadcast.com.
One billion dollars for what exactly? So dumb.
You tell me. I have never understood that transaction. The tech was mostly vapor, and IIRC there weren’t really any paying customers.