When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have learned from that.
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Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.
I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in.
Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.
Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.
The key to making acquisitions is being ready because you really never know when the right big one is going to come along.
We continue to look at accretive and synergistic acquisitions both in the domestic as well as international markets. Our emphasis, thus, will be on strategic acquisitions, and we will not be doing it just for the sake of making our name bigger.
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
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