# Professor Aswath Damodaran shares his views on Marissa Mayer's tenure at Yahoo

1 Faculty News January 10, 2017 ![USA Today logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027308.jpg?itok=crstnihK)>

Excerpt from [USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/01/10/marissa-mayer-failure/96395518/) -- "'Her flaw was that she should have recognized a few years ago that she was throwing good money after bad, and if she'd done so she would have likely got twice what she's getting now for Yahoo assets,' [Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran) says. In fact, Yahoo's stock topped out at nearly $52 in the fall of 2014."

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