Blitzscaling 17: Marissa Mayer on Scaling Google and Yahoo

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  • Опубликовано: 28 янв 2025

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  • @oliv23_
    @oliv23_ 3 года назад +18

    Whatever you think of Marissa Mayer and her leadership at Yahoo, this lecture is an amazing window into the inner workings of a 14,000 people tech company

  • @OurNewestMember
    @OurNewestMember 3 года назад +5

    13:08 at every order of magnitude [while scaling up], you should expect the system to break

  • @marcialabrahantes3369
    @marcialabrahantes3369 4 года назад +19

    Curious how's the WFH working policies working these days lol

  • @WhatsUpatWork
    @WhatsUpatWork 8 лет назад +18

    It's very interesting to see the differences between theses tech leaders. Thanks for putting all these together. There's certainly a big difference between them. Some are clearly standouts, while others not so much. It would be interesting to hold a vote or an open stack-rank them only by their presentations here.
    So far, Schmidt, Hastings, Tolia and Green hit me as a cut above.

  • @Romanfounder
    @Romanfounder 8 лет назад +8

    Really interesting, great piece of advice from 1hour ! Thank you

  • @MrSuperpat
    @MrSuperpat 9 лет назад +69

    It amazes me that companies are willing to spend 100's of millions of dollars a year on one individual to run a company into the ground.

    • @Str1000ac
      @Str1000ac 9 лет назад +6

      +MrSuperpat RawMeat it's really easy when it's not their money but the money from pension funds

    • @11maxed11
      @11maxed11 8 лет назад +17

      She was given an almost dead company. Don't think others would've done way better.

    • @11maxed11
      @11maxed11 8 лет назад +4

      Richy Rich dude chill down, no need to hate her this much

    • @11maxed11
      @11maxed11 8 лет назад +3

      ***** A little bit of respect for her privacy and family won't kill you

    • @MazBringsby
      @MazBringsby 6 лет назад

      @ComeSweetDeath Bullshit

  • @dcoblack
    @dcoblack 3 года назад +26

    The title of this video should be “how to scale a business into irrelevance”

  • @Cocomixermachine
    @Cocomixermachine 3 года назад +5

    She should make a talk on how to kill a company (Yahoo)

  • @chandrupandian5250
    @chandrupandian5250 8 лет назад +25

    As always, RUclips commenters have it all figured out. Given a company to turnaround, they will turn it around day after tomorrow.

    • @EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful
      @EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful 8 лет назад +11

      Lol so many fucking morons online. Those same people that blame marissa mayer for Yahoo's failure are the same people that haven't done anything in their lives.

  • @ZacharyISTheGoat
    @ZacharyISTheGoat 8 лет назад +22

    I understand many are upset. But honestly, logically, follow the timeline. She out of pure luck joined google. This "luck" happen stance pushed her into an executive role. People in SV are obsessed with Google on the resume -- so BAM, now she is your CEO. Vision? She mentions IN THIS INTERVIEW - she just asked around Yahoo what to do next. Literally - managing by group think.
    So. Make sure, when you hire, get someone with Google on their resume....

    • @bigphil815
      @bigphil815 4 года назад +4

      Don't forget to get someone to throw on a few covers of magazines for publicly

    • @llundber
      @llundber 3 года назад +2

      Epic leader failure

    • @SuperWeissmuller
      @SuperWeissmuller 3 года назад

      yeah....like she didn´t excel at Google....which is just ordinary and totally ignored by Yahoo when they hired her.

    • @TheRock2004
      @TheRock2004 3 года назад

      Also doesn’t hurt that she has a decent figure on her.

  • @oldskola3634
    @oldskola3634 4 года назад

    At 20:38, what does she mean by “venturing”... I’m. It sure I understand the context

    • @cseland
      @cseland 3 года назад

      She says “mentoring”

    • @oldskola3634
      @oldskola3634 3 года назад

      @@cseland Ha! Now it's clear! Thanks!

  • @Someonner
    @Someonner Год назад +1

    How to screw up a company 101 and still make 100's of millions of dollars.

  • @MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by
    @MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by 4 года назад

    They have a big staff meeting on Monday when they talk about the previous week. $24 million per year.

  • @salmanhaider8793
    @salmanhaider8793 6 лет назад +9

    Google did the right thing by hiring Eric Schmidt as CEO. Yahoo did the wrong thing by hiring Marissa Mayer as CEO. They should have hired someone experienced like Eric Schmidt as CEO.

    • @midinerd
      @midinerd 3 года назад

      You did the wrong thing waiting for the results to cast judgment. You should've done the smarter thing and spoken leverls of scope inward on what the pros and cons were between the varying scenarios of those two companies and had something more substantial to say than paraphrasing the shallowest comments that were here before you.

  • @thatradkid
    @thatradkid 3 года назад +1

    interesting! 26:04 that happens at lunch and i never ever think how weird it is until just now lol

  • @CaptainPlanet007
    @CaptainPlanet007 8 лет назад +10

    Marissa Mayer is a prime example of the difference between a CEO and a visionary founder. Yahoo failed because it needs a visionary!

    • @Pimp-Master
      @Pimp-Master 7 лет назад +2

      She's a woman, so she's a shopper too. Selling Yahoo's assets could best be done by a woman.

    • @PhongNguyen-vh9no
      @PhongNguyen-vh9no 3 года назад +1

      Like you?

  • @mohamedsuhail263
    @mohamedsuhail263 2 года назад

    you didnt go to the wall

  • @vishwajeetvaze3380
    @vishwajeetvaze3380 3 года назад

    He didn't let the girl to ask a question!!😭😭 y wud you do that!??

  • @TrollMeister_
    @TrollMeister_ 3 года назад +8

    She got a huge payout from Yahoo…for doing what exactly

    • @erich9779
      @erich9779 3 года назад

      For being CEO?

    • @TrollMeister_
      @TrollMeister_ 3 года назад +1

      @@erich9779 CEO was just the title. But what did she actually accomplish as CEO ?

    • @erich9779
      @erich9779 3 года назад +1

      @@TrollMeister_ Did you watch the video? She mentioned a few principles of scaling

    • @erich9779
      @erich9779 3 года назад +2

      And yes,, something as small as scaling could be an accomplishment

    • @TrollMeister_
      @TrollMeister_ 3 года назад +3

      @@erich9779 At her level accomplishments are measured in stock price, revenue growth, market share(where applicable), innovation and employee satisfaction. By every measure she was a failure. Ultimately she was forced to resign with a big severance package.
      As for her tenure at Google, her coworkers there didn't like her either and she was forced out of the company.

  • @newworld3844
    @newworld3844 8 лет назад +4

    The dude in the front looks like Justin Bieber

  • @neverloosehope4233
    @neverloosehope4233 8 лет назад +2

    Her voice sounds exhausted. Marissa Meyer was much fresher when she was at Google and when she started at Yahoo. Sorry for her. She was such a winning personality that time !

    • @lnhart7157
      @lnhart7157 8 лет назад +1

      +BetterThanEver Probably a super difficult job. Everywhere I hear that she does really well, but she still wasn't really able to save the company. And Yahoo was a dumpster fire before she took over.

  • @UCCi6g4buFK8dVtAxbFYEKzA
    @UCCi6g4buFK8dVtAxbFYEKzA 3 года назад +4

    35:26 that laugh hahaha

  • @swiftystatusconfirmed6711
    @swiftystatusconfirmed6711 6 лет назад

    10:31 _She would coded into..._ ??? I heard she wasn't a right person at all to run a technology company. Where did it fall part? _What was wrong with Yahoo board of members when they were recruiting her?_

  • @abcdefghijklm5784
    @abcdefghijklm5784 3 года назад +3

    Elizabeth Holmes and Marissa Meyer see a commonality

  • @hyun8519
    @hyun8519 3 года назад +1

    wow seems like great speaker but what is she really saying seems like not much

  • @ronaldhuang2053
    @ronaldhuang2053 2 года назад

    Whoa she looks like Naomi watts but sounds like Sergey brin

  • @ihsankamil6279
    @ihsankamil6279 8 лет назад +11

    Man she's beautiful, smart AND Geeky. Whichever lucky guy got her

    • @EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful
      @EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful 8 лет назад +13

      That's a creepy & perverted comment, dude. You need to get out of the house more lol

    • @ihsankamil6279
      @ihsankamil6279 8 лет назад +7

      Evan Green You're looking at the man in the mirror.

    • @EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful
      @EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful 8 лет назад +2

      Steve L rubbish. Show what you wrote to your mom, sister, etc. They'd prob laugh at you.

    • @lucasboden
      @lucasboden 7 лет назад +1

      She reminds me of the character from Gone Girl.

    • @sagechris4742
      @sagechris4742 4 года назад

      your mother got her

  • @dizhar8888
    @dizhar8888 8 лет назад +22

    Am I the only one here that thinks this is really interesting?

    • @sagechris4742
      @sagechris4742 4 года назад

      It's super interesting. She came into be CEO of a shit company. They didn't do performance reviews or incentivize performance. There was nepotism shit show company 5000.

    • @PhongNguyen-vh9no
      @PhongNguyen-vh9no 3 года назад +2

      Yes, you are the only one.

    • @RawMateria1s
      @RawMateria1s 3 года назад

      Yeah...you and at least the 1k people that gave it a thumbs up!

  • @Alexjdenne
    @Alexjdenne 3 месяца назад

    Strategic acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1bn in cash. Sold later at a 99.7% loss. Wow.

  • @seintsan5384
    @seintsan5384 8 лет назад +5

    She is really great and very talented. All these tech leaders look a lot more comfortable here.

    • @mensrea1251
      @mensrea1251 Год назад

      “She is really great and very talented.”
      This comment didn’t age very well.

  • @KenNakagama
    @KenNakagama 8 лет назад +6

    It amazes me how 10% of raters can find an act of Community Service to be bad. Then turn it into a forum of hate and attack. This is a Stanford event, not a reddit post

    • @lucasboden
      @lucasboden 7 лет назад +1

      She is a failure and a rich failure. She deserves all criticism she gets. I am sure she doesn't need A MAN to defend her.

    • @midinerd
      @midinerd 3 года назад

      ​@@lucasboden way to stand up for her.... MAN

  • @jordanjackson7171
    @jordanjackson7171 7 лет назад +7

    love the DNA analogy to culture ... brilliant

  • @hyun8519
    @hyun8519 3 года назад

    pretty much hooey but i guess it is 6 years old

  • @YoloMonstaaa
    @YoloMonstaaa 3 года назад

    1:08:00

  • @mohamedsuhail263
    @mohamedsuhail263 2 года назад

    البهارات الباردة تسبب الاسترجاع المريءي

  • @i123456987654
    @i123456987654 2 года назад

    lol this is why it's important for us to learn german...this is why i'm using duolingo

  • @weeksy_j
    @weeksy_j 9 лет назад +11

    Larry & Serge Dollars. Classic.

    • @irs07
      @irs07 9 лет назад

      +Jason Weeks what do you mean?

    • @jay-rathod-01
      @jay-rathod-01 3 года назад

      Dollars classic I do believe that too. No hate. Just pure belief.

  • @jedgar6653
    @jedgar6653 5 лет назад +4

    Waiting for Kristen Bell to play her in a movie

    • @sagechris4742
      @sagechris4742 4 года назад +1

      She's going to play Kristen Bell in a movie

  • @lucaunti
    @lucaunti 4 года назад

    Ok brava e bella ma sulla sua avversione per remote distributed teams ha preso cantonata (concordo con DHH) ....e sulla sua gestione di yahoo....(omissis) . ma ormai era troppo tardi, Carl Icahn quando voleva che accettassero offerta di microsoft per 47 miliardi aveva ragione come al solito, ma J. Yang non aveva capito che anni passano e crescono ragazzi MOLTO più intelligenti di te ogni settimana....... io venduto presto e guadagnato poco ma per fortuna non ho certo aspettato la miss x vendere ! sul suo pacchetto di uscita, beh giudicate voi ( poi critichiamo buonuscite dei ns soliti dirigenti dai carrozzoni statali ....nn vedo tanta differenza, ok lei è più bella...ma IMHO credo che anche la sua buonuscita gridi vendetta)

  • @lotusbuds2000
    @lotusbuds2000 9 лет назад +7

    A lot of "I was like.."

    • @tedgegi155
      @tedgegi155 8 лет назад +3

      +lotusbuds2000 Millennial talk-speak. Equivalent to Baby Boomer "ya know".

  • @midinerd
    @midinerd 3 года назад

    I could do a better job than her. I also yell at sports games and sort of jerk my muscles while watching, pretending like I'm one of the athletes. I look around to make sure no one sees when it happens or pretend I was reaching for something, probably a beer or chili dip. Then I shake my head... because I would've not done the thing that made the mistake.... goodness gracious I can do better than what I observe, especially after watching it unfold.
    Who am I? Yes, I am the comment section of this video.
    Oh what's that? You could've written a funnier comment? yeah, maybe NOW THAT YOU'VE FINISHED READING IT

  • @i123456987654
    @i123456987654 2 года назад

    lol i forgot yahoo bought tumblr

  • @videogamesare1
    @videogamesare1 8 лет назад +12

    People are amazingly negative about this person.

    • @lucasboden
      @lucasboden 7 лет назад +6

      Because she is worth half a billion dollars even though she ruined one of the major tech companies of the internet age. Who in the late 90s would predict Yahoo is dead in 2017.

    • @adamlee9347
      @adamlee9347 6 лет назад +1

      Yahoo was once offered to get acquired by Microsoft for over 60 billion dollars. Through some executives and Marissa's era of the company it tanked and ended up selling to Verizon for around 4 billion.

    • @adamlee9347
      @adamlee9347 6 лет назад +1

      Some of her management policies and her decision to acquire tunblr for 1.1 billion dollars were highly criticized

  • @killtrocity6857
    @killtrocity6857 3 года назад +1

    She bankrupt Yahoo..

  • @fadlimuhammad7314
    @fadlimuhammad7314 4 года назад +1

    Thanks you my dears onbrhalf female's...(Page in Concerns Claims)

    • @fadlimuhammad7314
      @fadlimuhammad7314 4 года назад +1

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  • @slugdub101
    @slugdub101 9 лет назад +1

    No one crack a joke, please!

    • @KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841
      @KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841 3 года назад

      I say, I say, I say. I um....found a police dog in my dustbin.
      How did you know he was a Police dog?
      He had a Policeman with him.

  • @ricardodsavant2965
    @ricardodsavant2965 3 года назад

    YooHOo

  • @weaselswithmeasles
    @weaselswithmeasles 8 лет назад +10

    she rambles way too much

  • @tedgegi155
    @tedgegi155 8 лет назад +7

    The back of her hands look like those of a 75 year old.

    • @MasterAppels
      @MasterAppels 7 лет назад

      It's because of the position of her hands.

    • @sagechris4742
      @sagechris4742 4 года назад

      She's a body builder you fuck

  • @lisahedstrom8742
    @lisahedstrom8742 6 лет назад

    Man this is one of the most sexiest comments sections I’ve seen. Fuck me for being a blonde woman in tech.

  • @17teacmrocks
    @17teacmrocks 3 года назад +2

    genius

  • @nalo6310
    @nalo6310 3 года назад

    w

  • @nonchalantd
    @nonchalantd 4 года назад

    !

  • @2choosewisely2
    @2choosewisely2 3 года назад

    the ceo waiting for the cable guy: false and dysfunctional self privilege hierarchies. classic western neo structure

  • @breannesmith9218
    @breannesmith9218 6 лет назад +2

    she never graduated lol

  • @charlech
    @charlech 7 лет назад +2

    100% would bang

  • @jay-rathod-01
    @jay-rathod-01 3 года назад

    I really doubt her professional skills. Hope everything is going on FAIR at the top.