The company is focused on e-commerce for two reasons: there is no universal solution on the internet to reduce friction at the checkout stage and checkout is probably where there is the most friction today.
Many foreigners who were parachuted into the company at its launch by Groupon (most of whom were from Germany) are no longer with the company after a lot of friction with the JV partners from Tencent about how to make the venture work in China.
That could lead to friction if BP runs out of money since there's no provision in current law for deciding whether to award money to injured shrimpers or injured shareholders, many of whom will be unsympathetic characters like banks and hedge funds.
Or is Yahoo so far gone, corporate culture-wise, that any attempt at reform, no matter how well designed and well intended, is bound to yield more friction than forward progress?