On: Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google

[pilsetnieks]

Or they needed someone with experience to do a controlled descent with minimum casualties instead of a fiery crash.

[kelnos → pilsetnieks]

How was Marissa Mayer that person, though?

[pilsetnieks → kelnos]

I'm guessing better than GP anyway. Or call it a smokescreen if you will, distracting people by making loud decisions while the board got ready for winding down everything. I mean I'm guessing - we'll never know for sure unless someone from Yahoo's leadership comes forward and lays it all out.

[Phlarp → kelnos]

Likely an understanding that she would unwind the company gracefully without touching the shiney glass case full of $BABA and a trust that should would execute that understanding faithfully.