Episode 11. Yahoo!, Focused Strategy, and Magical Thinking: What We Can Learn from Yahoo's Failure
In the 2000 movie Frequency, a secondary character named Gordo becomes happy and wealthy thanks to Yahoo shares he bought before. He did it because his friend John, the main character, established contact with the past with an old radio. John from 2000 advised six-year-old Gordo from the past to remember the "magic word:" "Yahoo."Guess who paid for the product placement. The film was greenlighted for production in January 1999. At the time, Yahoo stock was at its peak. But then thin...