Yahoo's HR boss changed his mind about leaving the company after having a dream where he was talking to Marissa Mayer
Instead, he will return in a new role called the Head of Culture, Coaching and Communicating, according to a person close to the situation.
Gould's sudden change of mind, which was previously reported by the New York Post, comes as a bit of a surprise. In late March, Gould wrote in an internal email that he decided to leave Yahoo because it was "time to take a break and decide my next adventure," according to Re/code's Kara Swisher.
The Post repoted that Gould changed his mind after Mayer made a "multimillion dollar" retention offer. The report, citing unnamed sources, said that Mayer made the counter offer after finding out Gould was leaving to join a company she "resents." It didn't say which company tried to poach Gould, or how big the new offer from Yahoo was.
But a person close to the situation tells us it was Gould who approached Mayer with the idea of staying at Yahoo, not the other way around. In fact, Gould claims that his decision to stay at Yahoo was partly because of a dream in which he was talking to Marissa Mayer, according to a Tumblr post he wrote last week.
Here's the full post: