Yahoo calling itself the "world's biggest startup" seems like a superlative example of bad faith. It is hard to take companies (or people, for that matter) seriously, when they openly claim to be something they know they aren't.
Similarly, Pogue's content is full of inaccuracies, gross over-simplification, leading conclusions, and ignorance beyond what can be considered excusable. I suppose he'll be right at home at the "world's biggest startup".
As best I can tell, Mayer believes deeply in reflexivity, which might not actually be a bad strategy. Probably figures if she repeats claims like this over and over again, and make a couple acquisitions that kinda-maybe-sorta insinuate that it's different this time, peoples' opinions on Yahoo will turn around and with it Yahoo's fortunes. I'm sure deep down she knows she's peddling bullshit though.
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Yahoo calling itself the "world's biggest startup" seems like a superlative example of bad faith. It is hard to take companies (or people, for that matter) seriously, when they openly claim to be something they know they aren't.
Similarly, Pogue's content is full of inaccuracies, gross over-simplification, leading conclusions, and ignorance beyond what can be considered excusable. I suppose he'll be right at home at the "world's biggest startup".
As best I can tell, Mayer believes deeply in reflexivity, which might not actually be a bad strategy. Probably figures if she repeats claims like this over and over again, and make a couple acquisitions that kinda-maybe-sorta insinuate that it's different this time, peoples' opinions on Yahoo will turn around and with it Yahoo's fortunes. I'm sure deep down she knows she's peddling bullshit though.