&gt; Activist investor Starboard Value LP last month called on the company to halt its Alibaba spinoff and instead find a buyer for its Internet business. In a letter to Yahoo, Starboard said its position changed following the federal government’s decision not to rule on whether the Alibaba spinoff would incur billions of dollars in taxes.<p>Does anyone know anything about Starboard Value LP? What is an activist investor? The term itself screams adversarial. Do all CEO&#x27;s have to deal with this? I can&#x27;t imagine having to both plan how to pull a company out of the water and have to deal with people outside of the company who think they know better.