No one is really surprised by last night’s news that Yahoo announced “leadership change” including firing Carol Bartz over the phone. I mean, she had only 33% approval rating and the stock rose 6% on the news of the firing.
Yahoo said:
Bartz emailed everyone via her iPad saying:
Carol took over as the CEO of Yahoo in January 2009 after Jerry Yang replaced Terry Semel as CEO in 2007. It has been a rough road for Yahoo, very rough.
I am still so sad about Yahoo, so sad. But will I ever forgive Bartz for pulling Yahoo out of the search space, at least in terms of building backend search technology? I doubt it.
It is hard to see what future Yahoo has but I do hope the next CEO, not the interim, has a clear future for Yahoo.
If Carol did anything well, it was fire a lot of people and cut a tremendous amount of costs.
Do you think Yahoo will have a solid future from here on out?
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