3 posts and columns on boatloads of money

The One-Year Report Card of Yahoo's Carol Bartz–Deal-Making: Incomplete

in News on January 25, 2010 at 9:24 am PT

Sorry for the break in grading Yahoo’s Carol Bartz on her one-year anniversary as CEO. But BoomTown was swanning around the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this weekend, went partying with those boozy Hollywood types and ended up in Provo with the crazy gals from “The Runaways”! I wish! Actually, running away from issuing any grade for deal-making for Bartz is a pretty good way to put it. Because today, after much thought, I have to give the Yahoo leader an incomplete for deal-making.

"Boatloads of Money" Brings Boatloads of Trouble to Yahoo's Bartz: The D7 Video (Plus How the Deal Almost Sank)

in News on July 31, 2009 at 1:16 am PT

One of the reasons Wall Street investors have gone sour on Yahoo’s stock since its online advertising and search partnership was struck with Microsoft was a comment that CEO Carol Bartz made at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference in late May. In an onstage interview with me, I asked Bartz about what it would take to do a deal. She answered quite emphatically that “if there’s boatloads of money, and there’s the right technology and there’s the right information we’d have, sure.” Here’s the video of that, as well details about how the deal talks went bad at D7 too.
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D7: The Conference in Quotes

in D7 on May 29, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

Like last year’s D6 conference, this year’s D7 has had its share of memorable lines. Here’s a selection of some of the better ones, including this quip from Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: “You can’t take nine women and make a baby in the month; there is a process.”
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