I&#x27;ve hired some great former Yahooligans (or whatever they used to call themselves before the grey malaise descended), especially analytics-focused developers. Granted, they all left Yahoo before things got really awful, but just because a company is failing doesn&#x27;t mean its employees are failures. In fact, I&#x27;ve learned more from failed companies than successful ones; all successful companies are in their key metrics alike, but every failed company fails in its own edifying way.