Even with Yahoo's stellar strength over the past year, the stock is still about 80% lower than its Internet bubble high. As I think back to Yahoo's revolving door of CEOs, I can't help imagine to myself that, some years ago, the board collectively stated: "What we need is a pissed-off blonde female", and they got Sue Decker.
When that didn't work, the same board convened and said, "OK, let's stick with blonde and female, but let's make sure she's even more pissed-off." Thus came Ms. Bartz:
Finally, as Yahoo continued to founder and see absolutely no turnaround, the board made a radical decision. "Blonde. Check. Female. Check. But let's go for NICE this time. Get me Marissa!" And it seems to have worked its magic.
In all seriousness, she seems to be making some good moves, including telling those slackers hanging out at home that they better get their Yahoo butts into the Yahoo office and do some Yahoo work.
By the way, Marissa lives all of four blocks away from me, so I took the liberty of showing you how magnificently a multi-centi-millionaire lives. As you can see, the beautiful thing about the Valley is that the super-rich really don't see the need to show it. I bet most Slopers live in as nice a house as this one.
