[potatosareok]

I don't understand what point you're trying to make with this comment. I don't see anyone here attacking her, in fact only in the article does anyone bring up her specific performance.

In fact you seem to be saying she did not do a good job yourself as you put this defense of "ceo can't do much and this ceo had bad luck"

So what has she done to earn $55 million dollars? Without attacking anything about her personally, in the role of her job, did she do a good or bad job? I think a bad job or at most neutral job. In fact in writing this comment I looked at her bio and I came away really impressed, but at the same time Yahoos stack ranking wasn't popular, Tumblr I think was a fail move. Do I think anyone could have done a better job then her? I don't know...digital ad sales is huge but as a single person I don't know how much impact you can have.

Could they not have found someone else to go down with the ship for less then $55 million (say $5 million) or is 50 million just so little money for a large company like Yahoo that people who offer hire ceo just don't give a fuck about the difference between the two numbers.

[WalterBright]

> Could they not have found someone else to go down with the ship for less then $55 million

I'm available. I'd do it for $54m.

Edit: Oh, who am I kidding. I'd do it for $50m.

[Dagwoodie]

Unless they've publicly choked a puppy to death or donated to right-wingers exclusively, anyone who advances the current Zeitgeist is not going to be judged too harshly, especially since Yahoo was already in deep trouble and her only sin appears to be she isn't their savior.

[vasilipupkin]

No. Yahoo has been a company on a downward trajectory for s long time. It's not easy to find a CEO who wants to take that on