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I was amazed that she took the job at all. Yahoo is dead, and has been for a very long time.

I'm amazed that you were amazed. Seems like the perfect job to me. Not only because economically it's obviously fantastic, but also because she came to a company with significant resources and were basically given the freedom to do whatever the hell she wanted with it, without having to think much about an existing identify and business.

We can navel gaze at Yahoo as a company all we want, but I think Marissa's accomplishments as an individual should not be overlooked.

She largely got to write her own ticket at Yahoo and had two healthy children while moving from a mid-upper management role at google into a real CEO position.

Most women that have two children back to back like that in the professional world end up in a "mommy track" career path.

For Marissa and her family I'm sure the journey was more important than the destination. However I doubt the shareholders feel the same way.

From a shareholder perspective I think she did a marvelous job: The task at hand was never to turn around Yahoo! into a Google-esque profitable tech power house, the task was to protect the shiny glass box in the lobby full of BABA.

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