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Don't confuse being in right place at the right time with being smart
Yahoo benefited from perfect market timing during the early internet boom but mistook luck for sustainable strategy. Instead of building a strong engineering foundation, it focused heavily on ad sales and made poor acquisitions like Geocities and Tumblr. Overconfidence and weak technical focus accelerated its decline.
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Yahoo benefited from perfect market timing during the early internet boom but mistook luck for sustainable strategy. Instead of building a strong engineering foundation, it focused heavily on ad sales and made poor acquisitions like Geocities and Tumblr. Overconfidence and weak technical focus accelerated its decline.
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