Ben Werdmuller

Tag: marissa mayer

  • Why I think Marissa Mayer should buy Automattic

    PandoDaily reports that Yahoo! has sold half its stake in Alibaba for $4.5 billion. Their take is that Yahoo! needs one or two big products to turn the company around, and that Marissa Mayer should look to successful large acquisitions like PayPal and YouTube. I agree. And I can’t think of a better company for […]

  • A pretty good day for Marissa Mayer: why Yahoo! could still win

    Not only was she named as the new Yahoo! CEO today – but she’s also announced that she’s expecting her first child. That’s up there with Mark Zuckerberg’s graduation-IPO-wedding triple whammy earlier this year. At the time of writing, Yahoo! is worth over $19B. It’s certainly languished for the better part of a decade, and […]