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		benhamner on April 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Can Yahoo Be Worth Less Than Zero? "They could reassign some of their brightest engineers to write trading algorithms." Unfortunately for that strategy, their last CEO effectively got rid of all their good machine learning guys.

drgath on April 18, 2014 | [–]

As a former Yahoo, I can confirm. There's certainly still some great engineers at Y!, but you could start a Fortune 500 company with former Yahoos.

billmalarky on April 18, 2014 | [–]

Any more background to that story? Did he specifically go after them or was it just a culture change that scared off all the talent?

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