{"id":17012,"date":"2023-05-05T22:01:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/05\/marissa-mayer-figures-yahoo-couldve-done-better-buying-netflix-instead-of-tumblr\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T22:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:01:03","slug":"marissa-mayer-figures-yahoo-couldve-done-better-buying-netflix-instead-of-tumblr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/05\/marissa-mayer-figures-yahoo-couldve-done-better-buying-netflix-instead-of-tumblr\/","title":{"rendered":"Marissa Mayer figures Yahoo could\u2019ve done better buying Netflix instead of Tumblr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple\">Marissa Mayer says Yahoo should\u2019ve bought Netflix or Hulu, not Tumblr, during her time as CEO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple\">\u201cWe looked at a transformative acquisition, and we bought Tumblr,\u201d Mayer said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emergingtechbrew.com\/stories\/2023\/05\/04\/marissa-mayer-ai-yahoo-regrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview with <em>Tech Brew<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAt the same time, we were also considering whether it was possible to buy Hulu or, ironically, Netflix. And I think Netflix was $4 billion and Hulu was at $1.3 billion at the time. And either of those, with hindsight being 20\/20, would have been a better acquisition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/5\/5\/23712973\/yahoo-tumblr-netflix-hulu-ceo-marissa-mayer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marissa Mayer says Yahoo should\u2019ve bought Netflix or Hulu, not Tumblr, during her time as CEO. \u201cWe looked at a transformative acquisition, and we bought Tumblr,\u201d Mayer said in an interview with Tech Brew. \u201cAt the same time, we were also considering whether it was possible to buy Hulu or, ironically, Netflix. And I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}