Corporate Games

Good on Marissa Mayer for playing the system well and extracting a few hundred million dollars from a silly company. Rather than putting her life on hold and voluntarily going barren to please a thankless corporate machine, she set up a nursery in her office and had her third child.

Punk rock to the end, the workplace serves her needs in life, instead of her being its slave.

While previously at Google, she made millions doing methodical A/B testing instead of having an opinion, but had enough soul to commission Chihuly to make a 400 piece installation for her ceiling so she could live among playful color. She also spends her money on fashion and accessories, and out of defiance never ruined herself with silly tattoos as is popular today with those who seek strong stimulation but aren't brave enough to cut themselves or find a violent lover.

She joined Yahoo as its CEO and reinvented it as a vapid entertainment company for people with nothing to do. It literally had to push entertainment at people to get them to watch this drivel.

Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo combines their drivel into a powerful drivel conglomerate.

Mayer will walk away with a pile of money for her wasted time. Maybe she'll now choose to do something more meaningful than entertainment promotion.