4. She acquired an insane amount of companies.
Yahoo has snapped up almost 40 startups since Mayer took over in the summer of 2012. The organizations have
been young, with only a handful of them making it past the Series A round of venture capital funding. The biggest
buy was Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion.
Yahoo does three kinds of acquisitions, Mayer has said: smaller acquisitions for talent, mostly in mobile; strategic
acquisitions like Summly, which powers the Yahoo