Just after he was named CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella got a visit from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.
At the meeting, which took place in the Seattle area where the software giant is headquartered, the former Google exec apparently gave him an earful of advice about turning around the culture at Microsoft, based on her own experience so far at the Silicon Valley Internet company.
Putting aside the fact that Microsoft has no Chinese treasure chest, like the big hunk of lucrative Alibaba stock that has masked a lot of bumps on Mayer’s pot-hole-filled road to recovery at Yahoo, the encounter was described to me by several people familiar with the meeting as cordial and friendly.
Except when the topic got to the long-fraught search advertising and technology partnership between the companies, which Mayer has been agitating to change for some time now. Mayer’s basic message to Nadella has remained the same as it has been for a while now — Yahoo wants out of the deal, and sooner than later.
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