tough is good. yahoo needs help with bottom-line issues. some advice:
- get rid of the last old timers in the ranks (ash, filo, hilary to a lesser extent etc). they had their time at bat and then some. hard reboot on the exec ranks is needed.
- close socal offices. dumb idea left over from semel.
- proceed with more bangalore stuff. y! bangalore gets shit done
- take two more levels out of y! management depth, at a minimum
- sell search. y! is losing tens of millions annually in a war it has already lost. search is over. google won. accept it.
- y! engineering is a disaster. a jillion groups with a jillion almost completely independent production stacks. this can't go on. most y! properties should have 20% of their current eng staffing levels after so many years...yet they continue to be bloated, doing their own stuff as if they were independent companies
ok carol, that gets your bottom line in order
but what are you going to do about top-line? you can't fire your way to success. you need to figure out why people have migrated their lives to facebook...you need to figure out how to try to stem google's near-monopolistic hold on ad dollars. frankly though its not clear you can deal with either facebook or google...the time to do that was long ago. advertizers like google. people on facebook aren't coming back to yahoo.
good luck, my guess is you will realize getting balmer to make another offer for 18 for the whole company is the best bet
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[ 1.6 ms ] story [ 15.3 ms ] thread- get rid of the last old timers in the ranks (ash, filo, hilary to a lesser extent etc). they had their time at bat and then some. hard reboot on the exec ranks is needed.
- close socal offices. dumb idea left over from semel.
- proceed with more bangalore stuff. y! bangalore gets shit done
- take two more levels out of y! management depth, at a minimum
- sell search. y! is losing tens of millions annually in a war it has already lost. search is over. google won. accept it.
- y! engineering is a disaster. a jillion groups with a jillion almost completely independent production stacks. this can't go on. most y! properties should have 20% of their current eng staffing levels after so many years...yet they continue to be bloated, doing their own stuff as if they were independent companies
ok carol, that gets your bottom line in order
but what are you going to do about top-line? you can't fire your way to success. you need to figure out why people have migrated their lives to facebook...you need to figure out how to try to stem google's near-monopolistic hold on ad dollars. frankly though its not clear you can deal with either facebook or google...the time to do that was long ago. advertizers like google. people on facebook aren't coming back to yahoo.
good luck, my guess is you will realize getting balmer to make another offer for 18 for the whole company is the best bet