What Happened to All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisitions
What&#x27;s worse is that in spite of the ridiculous sums that Yahoo paid, the technical talent that they bought in was of pretty average quality.<p>She just bought over-hyped companies run by a bunch of kids. These kids were better at self-promotion (and perhaps business) than at producing great software.<p>Really good software engineers are not in the public view - They are too busy learning and writing code to waste their time fundraising, blogging about their technical achievements or chatting up journalists.<p>Marissa Mayer turned Yahoo into a startup lottery. What&#x27;s left of Yahoo is just a freakshow of capitalist excess.<p>I don&#x27;t see how this acquisition spree was ever going to &#x27;attract talent&#x27;. Seriously; would any talented, hard working, self-respecting engineer want to have some entitled multimillionaire lucky startup brat as their boss?