> Yahoo “was kind of this graveyard for cool companies”
Yahoo! actually decent at finding and buying Flickrs and Tumblrs. I'm not sure if they went there to die because Yahoo! didn't know how to grow them further, or because, as cool as they were, there wasn't actually that great of a business in the first place. Maybe being courted by Yahoo! should have been the sign to take the Google deal because Yahoo! being interested in you isn't a good sign.
Yahoo! actually decent at finding and buying Flickrs and Tumblrs. I'm not sure if they went there to die because Yahoo! didn't know how to grow them further, or because, as cool as they were, there wasn't actually that great of a business in the first place. Maybe being courted by Yahoo! should have been the sign to take the Google deal because Yahoo! being interested in you isn't a good sign.