Glenn Alperin

Private Equity Should Take Yahoo Private With a $35B Offer

A deal with Microsoft would have been the end of Yahoo, both as a business and as a culture. I can understand why Yang didn't want that. One can argue whether it was good for shareholders for that deal to fail, but I don't honestly think Yang was thinking about the shareholders as much as he was thinking about Yahoo as a business entity. Going private seems like it would be a good idea and very worthy of consideration under the circumstances as it would preserve Yahoo as a business as well as (probably) pacify activist investors who seem to think that money is always more important than principles.