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We Were Yahoo!

by Jeremy Ring
Marguerite Gavin
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Twenty-one years after its incorporation and sixteen years after its stock peak, Yahoo sold for 96% less than its value on January 3, 2000, when it had closed at an all-time high of $118.75 per share, resulting in a market capitalization of $120 billion. Wall Street valued Yahoo!, at that time in business less than six years, higher than it did Disney, News Corporation, and Comcast combined. At the end of 2016, the top seven businesses on the list of the highest-valued companies in the world by market capitalization include Apple at #1, Alphabet (Google's Parent Company) at #2, Amazon.com at #5, and Facebook at #7. Those companies combined are valued in excess of $2 trillion more than the price Verizon paid to acquire Yahoo! Yahoo!'s story is one of missed strategies, failed opportunities, and poor execution. Early decisions to de-emphasize search features, undervalue Google, and overplay Yahoo's hand in the Facebook negotiations haunted the rest of the company's existence. In addition, factors outside of Yahoo's control-most notably how irrational expectations of Wall Street created an environment where short-term decisions were made at the expense of the long-term good.
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Publisher: Ascent Audio Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781469096858
  • File size: 217440 KB
  • Release date: December 5, 2017
  • Duration: 07:32:59

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781469096858
  • File size: 217458 KB
  • Release date: December 5, 2017
  • Duration: 07:37:59
  • Number of parts: 7

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Biography & Autobiography Business Nonfiction

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English

Twenty-one years after its incorporation and sixteen years after its stock peak, Yahoo sold for 96% less than its value on January 3, 2000, when it had closed at an all-time high of $118.75 per share, resulting in a market capitalization of $120 billion. Wall Street valued Yahoo!, at that time in business less than six years, higher than it did Disney, News Corporation, and Comcast combined. At the end of 2016, the top seven businesses on the list of the highest-valued companies in the world by market capitalization include Apple at #1, Alphabet (Google's Parent Company) at #2, Amazon.com at #5, and Facebook at #7. Those companies combined are valued in excess of $2 trillion more than the price Verizon paid to acquire Yahoo! Yahoo!'s story is one of missed strategies, failed opportunities, and poor execution. Early decisions to de-emphasize search features, undervalue Google, and overplay Yahoo's hand in the Facebook negotiations haunted the rest of the company's existence. In addition, factors outside of Yahoo's control-most notably how irrational expectations of Wall Street created an environment where short-term decisions were made at the expense of the long-term good.
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Biography & Autobiography Business Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Ascent Audio
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781469096858
    File size: 217440 KB
    Release date: December 5, 2017
    Duration: 07:32:59

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781469096858
    File size: 217458 KB
    Release date: December 5, 2017
    Duration: 07:37:59
    Number of parts: 7

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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