of meyer's long time confidant's, a person who really helped her career along, a person named gabriel stricker. he was a pr guy at google. he made her into something of a business celebrity. he helped. she said to her, i think you would be a great fit for the yahoo! role. there is no way i'm doing that with yahoo!'s current board of director. the reason she said that is over its many years yahoo! had a notoriously bad board of directors. these are people who hire talented ceos. but they were a bad fit for the company. people who prevented the company from making sound business decisions. there was a moment where yahoo! got a big offer. yahoo! got this large offer from microsoft and the company fumbled it. they pushed it off and said they wouldn't do it. it is just a notoriously bad board of directors. what she did -- what she didn't known -- what she didn't know was across the country in new york there is a hedge fund manager. this is another chapter in the book. his job is to be an activist investor. what he does as he goes in and buys large stakes in public companies and says i am now a big