Flickr founder: "I would like Microsoft to buy Yahoo"

The founder of the photo service Flickr expressed that he would be very happy if his former parent company Yahoo becomes the property of Microsoft, because the level of innovation culture in Yahoo is much lower than that of Google, so Yahoo is simply not competitive in its current position.

As you know, Flickr photo service was sold to Yahoo in March 2005. Startup founder Stuart Butterfield (Stewart Butterfield) left Yahoo three years after this event, in July 2008. It is unlikely that he was offended by Yahoo, because this deal brought him several million dollars. Therefore, his opinion can be considered objective, especially since he is well aware of the state of affairs at Yahoo, having fully completed his three-year contract there.

“I think Yahoo’s problem is that the company’s management thinks too much about quarterly results,” Butterfield told ZDNet. “If the company is fully focused on achieving a certain level of free cash flow on current operations or a certain level of capital expenditure, then it’s quite easy for competitors to bypass you if they are not so much concerned about such things.” It is clear that this is a comparison of Yahoo and Google.