Why Sovereign Wealth Funds Were Smarter Than Yahoo Shareholders
Posted on 11/11/2014
Sunnyvale-based Yahoo was founded by hungry entrepreneurs, Jerry Yang and David Filo. Post dot-com-boom, Yahoo had acquired, sold and shuttered many high-profile acquisitions such as Geocities, Overture Services, Hotjobs.com, Right Media and Broadcast.com (which made Mark Cuban very rich.) In 2013, Yahoo paid US$ 1.1 billion for a blog service called Tumblr, founded by young […]
