I'm going to point out the obvious: that perhaps the problem is that _we think it's a good idea to have companies like Yahoo in the first place_.
Sprawling, disjoint, unfocused, patchwork... these descriptions comes to mind, and they apply as much to Google, whose rise and slip from clarity of purpose and mission is eerily similar in contour to those of us who remember when Yahoo was All That.
This bubble's obsession with unicorns is a fine example of an emergent system marshaling unbelievably vast resources in the service of perversely petty and frivolous aims.
Sprawling, disjoint, unfocused, patchwork... these descriptions comes to mind, and they apply as much to Google, whose rise and slip from clarity of purpose and mission is eerily similar in contour to those of us who remember when Yahoo was All That.
This bubble's obsession with unicorns is a fine example of an emergent system marshaling unbelievably vast resources in the service of perversely petty and frivolous aims.