morrison meyer also waiting to -- pointing to growth in the maven businesses.y grew to over $400 million. the company's founder is still with me. we have to talk about the spinoff first because there are some indications that the spinoff may not go as planned if the irs does not say we are going to not tax you. what is it? >> in all likelihood, you will see it happened n. whether the negotiation or discussions going back and forth but investors have been counting on this for a long time. i do not see a scenario where they are not able to get this deal done, based on the work they have done this far. emily: what is your take on marissa mayer and the job she has done? >> let's put it this way. yahoo! is worth more than zero or negative rate if you add up the cash they had in this valuation, basically the valuations are nothing. that is crazy. emily: what is it without alibaba? >> a really good advertising company. maybe not the leading one the most impressively growing one, but it is an impressive advertising company with a lot of unique users a day. i would go b

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just before meyer had got there in the company had gone through several ceos in a short period of time. there was an interim ceo named tim morrison and after that there was a permanent ceo named scott thompson, who was put out of the company for lying on his resume. all of that happened within the period of a year. it was so tumultuous that there were a lot of expectations at the company, which is to say let's hire this interim ceo. he has a vision for what do with the company. that had been the expectation. one july day marissa mayer was hired as the ceo of yahoo! and people were shocked. it was such an upset. basically what happened was in 2011 yahoo! fired its ceo. she gets a phone call. she is in new york and gets a phone call from the chairman who starts reading a script. she says it sounds like you are reading from a script, why don't you have the guts? she was fired. it was very public and very well-known. over at google one 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.