I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: a mildly-attractive, wildly-narcissistic woman isn’t what is needed to save a failing Internet company, no matter how many vanity Vogue photo shoots she does. The analog in everyone’s mind was Steve Jobs:Apple::Marissa Mayers:Yahoo. Let’s see how that’s going:
Of course, Marissa isn’t heartless. Although she’s garnered hundreds of millions of dollars (illustrating the profound wisdom of sleeping with Google co-founders, just in case you have a time machine and need a pro-tip), she doesn’t want the middle class to get too damaged, so she sent out this subtle signal from her Vogue shoot to warn where the price would be heading. Next stop is her armpit…………..in other words, the price is going to stink.
So, in a nutshell, here’s the summation of how THREE BILLION DOLLARS in acquisitions (many to her personal friends, according to various sources) of other startups and companies have gone for Yahoo. Just goes to show what Photoshop can do, doesn’t it?
