All Not Happy In Yahoo-Land
I just caught an article by Mary Jo Foley where she shares some interesting items that took place around the Yahoo camp during Microsoft’s quest to take over the company. The two most interesting items for me were:
- Employee compensation poison pill
- Yahoo managers didn’t want Google partnership
First, Yahoo made it more worthwhile for Yahoo employees to leave the company than to stay if purchased by Microsoft. It’s a poison pill that makes the company very unattractive for potential bidders. I don’t understand why anyone would want a company they worked for to act like that.
The other tool that Yahoo used during all the activities by Microsoft was to float the idea of a partnership with Google. Foley’s article states that Yahoo managers weren’t interested in a Google partnership before Microsoft’s offer.
So what these actions and others like it do for the company? In my opinion it makes it even less of a valuable purchase for anyone. Personally, if I were interested in Yahoo! I think I’d continue to sit back and let Yahoo! continue to devalue themselves. Then I’d come in get it a clearance prices.
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