What Happened to Yahoo - http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo...
Aug 12, 2010
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"Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That's why people proposing to destroy it use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example."
- Benjamin Golub
Best essay I've read in a month.
- Stephen Mack
What I don't understand is why a profitable company is considered such a loser? I don't expect yahoo to disappear anytime soon. I question their past acquisitions more than anything.
- Dario Gomez
Dario, I think this is why: http://finance.yahoo.com/charts...
- Stephen Mack
Good points made in the essay, but any description of an organization is by necessity an oversimplification. Would love to hear Glen C's take on this.
- Bruce Lewis
Ben. What ever happened to the goofy Yahoooooo commercials? ( at least they were better than the Ask.com commercials) barely.
- Ricardo Vidallon
Ironically, Yahoo! seems to be the *ONLY* company (compared to the likes of Google, Microsoft, Amazon) to host *public* (open) HackDays for developers in India!
- Space Cowboy
Can we come to this conclusion that a successful software company needs a talented hacker as its founder as in Google, Microsoft etc.? I think we cannot, I am lazy enough to think why.
- İnanç Gümüş
Good point Stephen. Though if you compare a lot of companies to google you will see the same if not worse trend. I'm not saying yahoo is great and secure in the space, but they are not dead yet.
- Dario Gomez