This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
When it comes to the Marissa Mayer/Yahoo!/Flickr love triangle, a little timeline of events is always helpful. So first we had Marissa Mayer, Google’s 20th employee, take over as CEO of Yahoo! after several other people over the course of 12 months just couldn’t cut it. It was around that time that the #dearmarissamayer movement began, with the message “Please Make Flickr Awesome Again” at the top of its list.
Mayer and Yahoo! wasted no time, the next day they responded with a call for employees and their own plea: “Come Help Us Make Flickr Awesome Again.” And it seems they meant it. Since then the Flickr team has doubled in size, and Mayer herself created an account (a real one, not the fake one that popped up in August), showing her Flickr team some love that they never received from either of their previous two CEOs.
Mayer shared this photograph of herself standing with Yahoo co-founder David Filo.
Finally, we’re up to now, and the Flickr support (both literal and moral) from the head honcho continues: ever since Flickr released its revamped mobile app a couple of weeks ago, Mayer has actually been using it, …
By: DL Cade
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