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Yahoo is an American web services provider known for its web portal, search engine, email service (Yahoo Mail), and news offerings (Yahoo News).

We dig behind Yahoo's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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Company profile

Industry
Web services provider
Founded
1994
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, United States
Ownership
Owned by Apollo Global Management

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In depth

Vault
Yahoo's Series of Missed Opportunities
Yahoo was founded in 1994 as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" and became the internet's first major portal.

The analyses

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
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