Carol Bartz
Carol Bartz
Carol Ann Bartz is an American business executive, the former president and CEO of the internet services company Yahoo!, and former chairman, president, and CEO at architectural and engineering design software company Autodesk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 August 1948
CountryUnited States of America
became digital excited gotten less male manager peers promoted sales within work
I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.
business customers deep demands face industry keen knowledge understanding
(Bass) has a deep knowledge of the industry and the business as well as a keen understanding of our customers and the demands they face every day.
humor manage start work
I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.
bad board committed members
When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful.
beat death family garbage husband listen love mother southern
My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
drove fed funny raised
My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.
We're so overburdened with all the bullshit in the system.
however information people
If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It's a free world on that matter.
child learned motherhood until
I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
good hunt layoffs people
We are always on the hunt for some really good people with some good ideas, ... There will be some layoffs because there are some synergies and there will be people doing the same thing.
smart passion years
It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.
phones boards chairman
I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board
running ipads apples
If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.
jobs years apples
Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.