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cgore
She almost destroyed what was left Yahoo, right? If anything, she should have been paid a negative salary.
vanattab
She defintaly failed to save Yahoo from being destroyed but I would not go so far as to say she destroyed Yahoo.
jamesdwilson
yeah it is called supply, demand, and negotiation. if she didn't want the salary she got, she can say no. it is very simple.
helmchenlord
It's just laughable how this article tries to pull a gender issue out of thin air.

Her base salary at Yahoo may have been $1m, but during her first six months at Yahoo she got a total of $36,6m. She has $69 million worth of unexercised stock options plus $97 million of Yahoo stock she already owns, after less than five years, during which she run the company into the ground.

McInerney gets a base salary of $2m plus a bonus of up to $2m, and he "will also be eligible for grants of long-term incentive rewards of up to $24 million". All of this is connected to his performance, and I guess the requirements will be much stronger than the ones set for Mayer.

idiot_stick
>during which she run the company into the ground.

That might be an exaggeration, but yeah. It's hard to fathom that someone could sock away enough wealth to last generations for accomplishing so little (from an investor's perspective).

mdotk
Fake news and manufactured outrage. It's all about those clicks and eyeballs.
[dead] mdotk
Fake news and manufactured outrage. It's all about those clicks and eyeballs.
mikestew
One had prior experience as CEO...one didn't. Move along, no gender-based discrimination to see here.
lawnchair_larry
He has double the salary, but less than half of the annual compensation. Sounds like the male CEO should be the one crying discrimination?

Salary means absolutely nothing on its own. Many CEOs take a $1 dollar salary, and among them are the richest individuals in the world.