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joelandren on July 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief

Armstrong is a sales guy. Marissa is a product person. Yahoo has the budget and bandwidth to incubate great products. I wouldn't count her out based on a sales guy trying to turn around an ad sales business.

adventureful on July 16, 2012 [–]

I didn't compare Armstrong to Mayer. I said the end result would be similar.

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