I think taking 1 data point of 1 experience from Mayer when she was an exec at Google to extrapolate it over her entire strategy at Yahoo! is an over-reach.
I can't speak to why the meeting played out the way it did....but I could see myself doing the same thing. Google just spent $80M (or w/e the purchase price was) on an acquisition.
They didn't block other blogs (or platforms) from the SERP results or anything like that. They just used their reach to improve the value of the asset they just acquired.
To ask them to do otherwise is really selfish, imho.
Then to take that one action and extrapolate it over her entire decision-making apparatus at a new company and entirely different type of acquisition.....
I can't speak to why the meeting played out the way it did....but I could see myself doing the same thing. Google just spent $80M (or w/e the purchase price was) on an acquisition.
They didn't block other blogs (or platforms) from the SERP results or anything like that. They just used their reach to improve the value of the asset they just acquired.
To ask them to do otherwise is really selfish, imho.
Then to take that one action and extrapolate it over her entire decision-making apparatus at a new company and entirely different type of acquisition.....