content: The only growth under her wasn't even her doing. The purchase of Alibaba stake was engineered by Jerry Yang. Since she was implanted shortly after that deal and during the rise of Alibaba stocks, it was believed the capital raised in that stake would allow her experiment more verses pressuring her to succeed.  Every deal she put together hammered another nail into Yahoo's coffin. Oh the biggest contribution after 1.5 years, they changed the logo and web design. Why, because thats what she did. She was an early employee at google, number 9 I think. She wasn't a product manager and she didn't oversee anything at Google that was noteworthy or money generation. The core of gmail, adwords, adsense, search, etc... were from completely driven by better people than her.  Her authoritarian method to managing design was what lead a revolt at google with key talent eventually leaving out of frustration. So no, she hasn't done anything at google that wasn't easily replaceable and she hasn't done anything at Yahoo that has had any impact.  Its beyond making bad decisions, she pissed off key people at Yahoo, who eventually left and became multi-millionaires and billionaires. She seems to have a knack for pissing off existing talent and reinforcing mistrust by always thinking new talent will make it better which it never has. Katie Couric deal was one of the worse deals anyone could have signed to a feminazi and alienating majority of their user base. Its always her way or the highway. Its about time Yahoo showed her the highway. Plus if she was a man, she would have been fired 2 years ago.