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The Past Is Prologue: Carol Bartz and Autodesk in 1992=Yahoo Now

in News on January 14, 2009 at 12:30 am PT

Here is a story, in full, by the always terrific G. Pascal Zachary, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal in 1992, about the newly hired CEO Carol Bartz and the “theocracy of hackers” at then-wacky Autodesk. Three guesses about who eventually won that battle, and the first two don’t count. Fast-forward to 2008, with Bartz now taking up the difficult reins of Yahoo, which is a little more behaved than Autodesk was then, but still a handful. Déjà vu anyone?