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![<p>As a Yahoo(YHOO) shareholder, I was thrilled with the news that Marissa Mayer would become CEO. I share her engineering background, but found it difficult to explain to outsiders exactly how this changed the game for Yahoo, particularly in terms of the company’s ability to attract top engineering talent. I’ve always had a hard time convincing non-engineering management that engineers are not Legos- they don’t all have identical skills and speeds. In fact, there’s a power law, where the top engineers are an order of magnitude more productive and innovative than the rest. Though it is true that the man-month is mythical, there is also a powerful network effect that can be unleashed by having talented engineers interact in unstructured ways. This is the secret of Google’s(GOOG) 20% time, and Facebook’s(FB) famous Hackathons. I was pleased then, to see “Marissa Mayer To Board: Yahoo Needs More Engineers” at Business Insider this morning. We know what one of those ideas is, and it’s pretty simple: Mayer wants to hire more front line engineers – a lot more. According to a source familiar with Mayer’s conversations with Yahoo’s board prior to her hiring, she told the board that a quick examination of its [...]</p><p>The post <a href=](http://www.weneca.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png)
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Posted on July 20, 2012 | No CommentsAs a Yahoo(YHOO) shareholder, I was thrilled with the news that Marissa Mayer would become CEO. I share her engineering background, but found it difficult to explain to outsiders exactly how this changed the game for Yahoo, particularly in terms of the company’s ability to attract top engineering talent. I’ve always had a hard time convincing non-engineering management that engineers are not Legos- they don’t all have identical skills and speeds. In fact, there’s a power law, where the top engineers are an order of magnitude more productive and innovative than the rest. Though it is true that the man-month is mythical, there is also a powerful network effect that can be unleashed by having talented engineers interact in unstructured ways. This is the secret of Google’s(GOOG) 20% time, and Facebook’s(FB) famous Hackathons. I was pleased then, to see “Marissa Mayer To Board: Yahoo Needs More Engineers” at Business Insider this morning. We know what one of those ideas is, and it’s pretty simple: Mayer wants to hire more front line engineers – a lot more. According to a source familiar with Mayer’s conversations with Yahoo’s board prior to her hiring, she told the board that a quick examination of its [...]
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Nobody Doesn’t Like Sara Lee- Dan Loeb and John Paulson Buy Ahead Of Spin
Posted on May 16, 2012 | No CommentsIn separate filings today, Dan Loeb, fresh off his successful fight for Yahoo(YHOO) board seats, revealed that he had increased his Sara Lee(SLE) stake, and John Paulson announced a new stake in the disappearing conglomerate. Sara Lee will be paying a special dividend of $3 per share and spinning off its coffee and tea business [...]
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