I don't like this expression, but weren't the "optics" of that just terrible? She looked and sounded really really tired. The Chairman is not telegenic AT ALL. And they were sitting about as far apart from each other as possible while being at the same desk.
She probably IS really tired (between the demands of pregnancy and the late-night boardroom fighting).
And she's probably dealing with a lot of anger around not getting to do her turnaround. Whether they were working or not, she was surely emotionally invested in her efforts to rebuild Yahoo as a company and now that is being rejected.
It's devastating when you are pouring your heart and soul into something and then the company just kills it and it's beyond your control. I'm sure a lot of us have been through that (I've been through it twice now, at Palm when HP killed webOS, and at Nokia when they announced they were giving up on phones), and I don't think it's any easier at the top level.
Though those eye-watering golden parachutes can't hurt...
That's how Im reading it. She put up a great fight and did better than I expected her to do. Every aspect of the job would've been a fight. I'd have only done it if I was paid plenty on entry and exit. She's gonna need quite a vacation after this.
