After hearing a news that Yahoo had a loss of $440 million in the past quarter, I really fear having an official account of yahoo. Though it was having just $22 million loss in the immediate preceding year.
OMG! What if the company suddenly stops it's operations and then what will be happening to their accounts.
You will be shocked to know that once Yahoo! Rejected to acquire Google for $5 billion in 2002, when the then CEO Terry Semel refused the deal after months of negotiation. Yahoo initially made a $3 billion offer but walked out after Google made a counter offer of $5 billion.
After that Google's parent company i.e; Alphabet Inc.'s valuation is about $730 billion while Yahoo's is just $35 billion
(approximately the equivalent amount on which Soft Bank acquired UK chip designer ARM @ $32 billion recently).
Yahoo! never knew that the company which it left for just $2 billion at that time will be the biggest night mare with the Indian CEO Sundar Pichai leading it. Though yahoo can never say Yahoo! anymore.
The lessons learnt from this is never underestimate the power of a company which has an unseen potential growth in future. Analyze, think and then take the right decision, take 6 months instead of 3 to make a good decision indeed, so that you don't need to regret it later on after few years.
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