<![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> I think she should have been made President with full control. How much worse could things have turned out? Google already had an enormous headstart. Semel and Yang were asleep at the wheel so the damage was already done.

So it is hardly fair to blame it on Decker. The organization needed a kick in the ass, but I don't know if I would have done it the way they did. Maybe they should have booted Yang. I agree that Decker is probably either not with Yahoo anymore or just being a lame duck until MS takes it over.

ron312

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> @princesscrap: she and her *ex-husband*.
i just don't understand why she is *still* popular at yahoo!. i, too can type without caps and i hate her...

wekry

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> she and her husband's best friend (the current y! cfo )wrote the microsoft offer didn't they???! she is spending her free time figuring out how to salvage her "perfect" career not how to help y!.....

princesscrap

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> whats her cut of the deal again..$140m

SeanPara

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> @EXYAHOO

How can anyone respect a person that clearly presided over a series of failed strategies? Sue Decker has failed. It's impossible for anyone to rationalize her "several" years at yahoo as anything but failure. Sorry.

sggrf

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> Bartkela - Thanks for correcting me. I was thinking one thing while typing another. Whoops...

QADude

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> @SUNNYVALESTEVE: I didn't say anything about him being loved, modest, overdelivering, or competent. What I meant was that Yahoo! never hired a "Head of Audience" (whatever that means), so there were like 20 VP's or something that needed a boss (including Mr. Peanut Butter), and they couldn't all report to Sue, so why not Jeff?

Snarkotron

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> @Snarkotron, are you kidding?? Jeff W. is one of the most widely loathed execs at Y. He is the proverbial poster boy for everything wrong with the company--full of bombastic narcissism, consistently underdelivering. It was on his watch that Google buried Y in search and search revenue. One thing's for sure, as long as he stays at Y the company hasn't really changed and you shouldn't invest in its future.

sunnyvalesteve

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> @RAY_SCHAEFER: there's also something of the "devil you know vs. the devil you don't" going on with Jeff W. He hasn't shown himself to be a strategic visionary, but he does keep a few dozen rowdy VP's and senior directors from breaking too many crayons.

Snarkotron

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> There are definitely some folks at YHOO trapped between a dislike of MSFT and distrust of their current management. It's a bad day when Ballmer looks like the lesser of two evils! >:)

Anyhow, one of Sue's non-endearing characteristics is that she tries to use humor in the all-hands, even when she's not really cut out for comedy. The worst I've heard of was the recent all-hands where Jerry came out and acknowledged the upcoming layouts, and then Sue came out to do a general status report, complete with wacky musical intros to the various sections. Um yeah, after hearing that the company was going to fire 1000 people, Yahoos were really in the mood for half-assed humor.

Snarkotron

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> @ABMW

When I was at Yahoo!, I had absolute respect for Sue. There's one!

So which of Sue's "favorites got the chop"?

exyhoo

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> @Bartkela--no, wait. She might decide to spend more time with her family!

sunnyvalesteve

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> @QADude:

Sue Decker is not the CEO. Jerry Yang is the CEO. Sue Decker is President.

My guess is a good chance that she's already gone or a lame duck. If I recall correctly, Sue Decker was one of Terry Semel's faves. Now that he's out of the picture, she has lost her most powerful champion on the board. It's plausible that she and the board have already discussed her exit and they're just waiting for the right time to announce her departure to "pursue other interests".

Remember that Jerry sits on the board and she does not.

BartKela

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> @longtail: Jeff Weiner is vesting in peace. Rationale: His dead weight is still lighter than the golden parachute he'd open if they booted him.

ray_schaefer

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> i just can't think of one single good things about her. terry semel was the one to blame, and sue decker is still untouchable and gets cool stock options/rsu when ours are mostly under water....

can anyone say anything good about her except "oh-wall-street-lovED-her", "oh-she-was-so-smart-that-warren-buffet-l..." kind of comment?

there are many things wrong with y!'s upper management level, and sue is definitely the one to blame.

why not just name qi liu the president and see how far an engineer can lead the company? i bet it's definitely better than these finance ppl.

wekry

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> overrated is right - the terry/jerry/sue braintrust destroyed the company and they all need to be gone. please msft, make it better.

and while we're talking overrated, why on earth is jeff "i'm a total genius, just look at how great i did with yahoo's strategy, video and search over the last several years" weiner still there?

longtailwagsthevalley

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> Right-hand woman...how about where are the female employees of Yahoo now in general, still there or on the way out?? Yahoo has just hemorraged a boatload of female talent. It's rather obvious...a huge, very noticeable chunk of the laid-off present in transition sessions over the last days were women - rather shocking given the women's bathrooms in the auxiliary campuses were hardly inhabited at all. It reeks of closing of ranks and buddy boyism.

CharBo

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> In the modest amount of unabashed 'sticking my nose in it', I have come to the conclusion, after interviewing a half dozen or so mid-level Yahoos...that these people have no love for this woman at all.

I mean, wouldn't one, as a leader of such an august marque, want to be somewhat admired?

I can't find one soul to say a nice thing about her - is that the way it must be for a fearless leader of Valley Regulars?

abmw

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> This is somewhat scary for Yahoo, as you definitely need your CEO to be very visible at a time when it's under siege. Then again, that also says a lot about her....

QADude

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> I'd hide, too, if I was the most overrated executive in the valley. The bullseye on her back is massive.

sggrf

]]> <![CDATA[Sue Decker, Yahoo's invisible woman]]> How would we know that the picture was taken today, unless she's holding a pink slip?

cv

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