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by st3v3r 3785 days ago
"If its not growing, for from many investors, yes, that is a failure."

Then those investors should go invest in something else, and quit trying to push a bunch of shortsighted crap on a company.

2 comments

I get what you are saying, and even agree to an extent. The fact that Dell had to take itself private to be able to save itself is a good recent example of how the super short term thinking of stock market investors can hurt a company.

That said, if a company doesn't want to be exposed to that sort of investor, then it shouldn't have done IPO and become a publicly traded company.

You understand that "they" in your opinion refers to the people who own yahoo. Why is your opinion more relevant than theirs, precisely?
Why is their opinion more relevant than the people that are actually running Yahoo?
The investors (ie, the board) run Yahoo, not the other way around.