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
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.
interact people
Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.
The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.
great people work
I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.
almost broad chat finance yahoo
Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
affect change farther hard surprised thinking
It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
early everybody figured hire
Everybody on my team - I couldn't do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you're successful is you hire really successful people.
company manage people totally
The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.
silicon valley
The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.
along annual everybody felt honest positive process review
If I had my way, I wouldn't do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated.
fierce global good google map worth
Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.
affected april asia below business climate confident continued customers data design despite details difficult digital discreet economic experience fell forward gain greater help late providing remain results selling strategy value
The difficult economic climate affected our business more than we anticipated late in our April quarter, ... Our business in Asia fell below our expectations and Discreet continued to experience selling pressure. Despite the shortfall, we remain confident in our strategy to help customers gain greater value from digital design data and look forward to providing more details on our results call.