A week ago, Anne Espiritu who was responsible for Google's public relations before leaving Google joined Yahoo, she became the first Googler Mayer brought to Yahoo. According to CNBC's Jon Fortt on Twitter, Google's former project manager Patricia Moll Kriese also left Google, formally joined Yahoo! as Senior Director of Yahoo's corporate projects.
Although this news has not been confirmed by both companies, Patricia Moll Kriese's personal page on LinkedIn revealed that she left Google in August, officially joined Yahoo. According to the information provided on LinkedIn, Patricia Moll Kriese joined Google in 2005, she served as Google's European Policy manager and International Policy Manager.In November 2011, she became Google's project manager (consulting).
Mayer made it clear to Yahoo employees that product priority would be the key step of her recovery plan. In her plan, talent is the most important part to realize this plan. Previously Yahoo announced to provide employees free lunch which is hoping to retain more talent. At the same time, to get talent from the outside, especially Google is also an integral part of this plan. We can imagine that after the introduction of two Googlers to Yahoo, more Googlers may join Yahoo.
Marissa Mayer also decides to initiate a strategic assessment of Yahoo. The assessment results may change Yahoo's business reorganization and plans to return cash to shareholders. She warned shareholders that she might not return to them the $4 billion Yahoo is going to get selling its stake in Chinese Internet company Alibaba. This may mean that Mayer will keep this $4 billion and have more money for acquisitions or taking other measures to allow re-growth of Yahoo's performance.
Retain internal talent by providing free lunch, inviting Googlers to strengthen Yahoo's engineer teams and make changes in the capital structure are important measures taken by Mayer after three weeks as Yahoo CEO, Only time can prove whether these measures are successful or not.
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