Company profile
- Industry
- Web services provider
- Founded
- 1994
- Headquarters
- Sunnyvale, United States
- Ownership
- Owned by Apollo Global Management
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The Succession Question · People & Control
Yahoo Burned Through CEOs Because the Job Was Unwinnable, Even for Marissa Mayer
Yahoo burned through CEOs the way some companies burn cash. Marissa Mayer was the most talented of them, and she still lost. The story isn't that the right leader never showed up - it's that the role itself couldn't be won.
8 min
The Fall · Decision Forks
Yahoo's 90% Haircut Took Two Decades of Refusing to Decide What It Was
Yahoo turned down $44.6 billion from Microsoft in 2008 and sold to Verizon for $4.48 billion nine years later. The 90% haircut wasn't one bad call - it was a company that spent two decades refusing to decide what it was.
8 min